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counterweight Definition

counter·weight (ko̵unt′ər wāt′)

noun

a weight equal to another; counterbalance

counterweight Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • create: Do we want to create a counterweight or do we want strategic cooperation?
  • provide: The evil child was supposed to provide a counterweight to the good influence of Jesus Christ on earth.
  • become: People power has effectively become a counterweight to corporate power.
  • have: The sturdy USB cable has a moveable counterweight attached.
  • need: To remove the bearings, the large counterweights needed to be removed first.
  • use: Using the standard counterweight the arm will take cartridges up to 15 grams - which covers just about all cartridges.

Preposition: on

  • side: A counterweight on one side of the polar axis balances the weight of the optical tube on the other.

Adjective modifier

  • important: This is an important counterweight to some unjustified perceptions that the whole system is failing to function.
  • useful: Might the speed of the jet be a useful counterweight to the luxury of the liner?
  • necessary: He thought that British support for Germany was a necessary counterweight against a growing and potentially excessive French influence in Europe.
  • only: To many, Saddam was the best of a bad lot, the only secular counterweight to the Islamists.
  • democratic: How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?
  • sufficient: Based on current evidence, says the Commission, regional wholesalers would appear unable to provide a sufficient competitive counterweight to such a duopoly.

Modifies a noun

  • system: Over 5 tons of additional weights were added into the counterweight system.
  • shaft: The design makes clever use of the motors to balance the optical tube giving a clean mount with no protruding counterweight shaft.
  • set: Objectives: To teach the safe handling of counterweight sets.
  • bar: Typically a counterweight bar, even empty, is not designed to sustain a potentially large force.

Noun used with modifier

  • purchase: The stage right wall now has 55 single purchase counterweight sets and the winch gallery stage left has 12 electric winches with pendant controls.