Counterbalancing
noun, verb ·5 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act by which something is counterbalanced.
""The ability of these large locomotives to run at such high speeds without pounding themselves to pieces", my correspondent concludes, "is a tribute to the vast improvement in the counterbalancing of American locomotives since a day in October, 1904, when one pair of the driving wheels of a Baldwin Atlantic type balanced compound lifted off the supported wheel of the St. Louis testing-plant when exerting no more than 320 h.p."
- 1 present participle and gerund of counterbalance form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples""The ability of these large locomotives to run at such high speeds without pounding themselves to pieces", my correspondent concludes, "is a tribute to the vast improvement in the counterbalancing of American locomotives since a day in October, 1904, when one pair of the driving wheels of a Baldwin Atlantic type balanced compound lifted off the supported wheel of the St. Louis testing-plant when exerting no more than 320 h.p."
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