equiponderate

English

Etymology

equi- +‎ ponderate

Verb

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

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

Noun

equiponderate (plural equiponderates)

  1. A counterbalance.
    • 1867, M. Bell, The Science of the Weather: In a Series of Letters and Essays, page 124:
      […] 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 […]
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