Definition of Equipoising

1. Verb. (present participle of equipoise) ¹

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Definition of Equipoising

1. equipoise [v] - See also: equipoise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Equipoising

equipluve
equipment
equipment and supplies
equipment casualty
equipment contamination
equipment failure
equipment failure analysis
equipment reuse
equipment safety
equipmentman
equipmentmen
equipments
equipoise
equipoised
equipoises
equipoising (current term)
equipollence
equipollences
equipollent
equipollently
equipollents
equiponderance
equiponderancy
equiponderant
equiponderate
equiponderated
equiponderates
equiponderating
equiponderous
equipondious

Literary usage of Equipoising

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"But the convenience of equipoising a greater weight by one much less is counterbalanced by a considerable diminution in accuracy—one of the causes of error ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"The force of capillary attraction is in many cases so great as to be capable of equipoising a considerably opposing force. If, for instance, a glass tube be ..."

3. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1904)
"The loss of water may readily be observed by placing such a fresh leaf on a balance and carefully equipoising it: the scale containing the leaf soon rises, ..."

4. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1878)
"His effort to rise gives the bucket full of water an upward cant, which, with the aid of the equipoising lump of clay at ..."

5. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1848)
"... and stop suddenly in their mad career, for an instant equipoising upon the very brink, as if they had shrunk back and feared to take the awful leap, ..."

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