equiponderate

Meanings

verbequiponderate (third-person singular simple present equiponderates, present participle equiponderating, simple past and past participle equiponderated)

present singular third person equiponderates · participle present equiponderating · participle past equiponderated · past equiponderated

To counterbalance.
When the two arms of a lever and the power are given, to find the weight that will equiponderate […]
1849, Thomas Rainey, Rainey's Improved Abacus
Synonyms: counterbalance, counterpoise, counterpose, counterweigh, equibalance, poise

nounequiponderate (plural equiponderates)

plural equiponderates

A counterbalance.
[…] and hence, I think, from these various uses to which we may conceive comets to be applied, we may consider them as the interlacers of solar systems, and the grand equiponderates of Nature […]
1867, M. Bell, The Science of the Weather: In a Series of Letters and Essays, page 124