counterbalancing

noun

The act by which something is counterbalanced.

UncommonScrabble 23

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of counterbalance
nouncounterbalancing (plural counterbalancings)

plural counterbalancings

  1. The act by which something is counterbalanced.
    1 more example

    "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.

    1964 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 193

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