Usually means: Offsetting force or weight distribution.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterbalance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. counterbalance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterbalance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterbalance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counterbalance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Counterbalance, counterbalance: Wordnik
  7. counterbalance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. counterbalance: Wiktionary
  9. counterbalance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. counterbalance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. counterbalance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Counterbalance, counterbalance: Dictionary.com
  13. Counterbalance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Counterbalance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. counterbalance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. counterbalance: Rhymezone
  17. Counterbalance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. counterbalance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. counterbalance: Free Dictionary
  20. counterbalance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. counterbalance: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. COUNTERBALANCE: Accounting Glossary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. counterbalance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counterbalance: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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noun:  (literally) A weight that is put in opposition to an equal weight so it keeps that in balance.
noun:  (figuratively) A force or influence that balances, checks or limits an opposite one.
verb:  (transitive) To apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To match or equal in effect when applying opposing force.

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