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Medical Definition of Counterbalancing
1. A procedure in behavorial research for distributing unwanted but unavoidable influences equally among the different experimental conditions or subjects. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterbalancing
Literary usage of Counterbalancing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference Book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1902)
"Pneumatic hoisting-cylinders using compressed air have been used at blast-furnaces,
the weighted piston counterbalancing the weight of the cage, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... so as to be insignificant in weight, all comes in the way of the wind, increasing
the head- resistance without counterbalancing advantages. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... so as to be insignificant in weight, all comes in the way of the wind, increasing
the head- resistance without counterbalancing advantages. ..."
4. Compound Locomotives by Arthur Tannatt Woods (1893)
"Counterbalancing of Reciprocating Parts.— Counterbalancing is a matter that ...
Marine Practice in Counterbalancing.—There are large triple expansion marine ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1867)
"On the Counterbalancing of Winding Engines for Coal Mines. By Sons DAGLISH.
On Steam-Boiler Explosions, with Suggestions for their Investigation. ..."
6. The Mechanical Engineering of Collieries by Cornelius McLeod Percy (1882)
"And as by a method of counterbalancing with chains the rope is to a large extent
balanced, there is practically only the coal to raise. ..."
7. Hydraulic Elevators: Their Design, Construction, Operation, Care and Management by William Baxter (1910)
"10, and this construction is commonly used, although the whole of the counterbalancing
is very rarely done in this way. A counterweight connected as shown ..."
8. An Elementary Treatise on the Mechanics of Machinery: With Special Reference by Joseph Nisbet Le Conte (1902)
"(£) Counterbalancing In the problem of counterbalancing we generally attempt to
find what mass placed at a fixed position opposite the crank will most ..."
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