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Meaning of Counterbalancing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The act by which something is counterbalanced.

Equivalents

العربية الموازنة
Ελληνικά αντίρροπος

Examples

“"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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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