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Definition of Equilibrating
1. equilibrate [v] - See also: equilibrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equilibrating
Literary usage of Equilibrating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1904)
"Method of equilibrating Columns — Experiments of Dulong and Petit. — The principle
of the method of equilibrating columns, as adopted by Dulong and Petit,1 ..."
2. The Elements of Mechanics, Comprehending Statics and Dynamics: With a by John Radford Young, John D. Williams (1848)
"... the determination of the third force equilibrating these will be reduced to
the determination of the diagonal of a parallelogram, from having the two ..."
3. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1893)
"Method of equilibrating Columns. — Most of the methods employed for measuring
the expansion of liquids depend upon a previous knowledge of the expansion of ..."
4. Electromagnetic Theory by Oliver Heaviside (1893)
"Any Stress Self-equilibrating. § 78. The resultant force and torque due to any
stress in ... Or, any stress in any region forms a self-equilibrating system. ..."
5. A Manual of the Steam-engine: For Engineers and Technical Schools; Advanced by Robert Henry Thurston (1891)
"Special Regulating and equilibrating Devices have been often employed as regulators
and oftener proposed or only experimentally and unsuccessfully used. ..."
6. Researches in Graphical Statics by Henry Turner Eddy (1878)
"The moment of flexure at any point of the girder may be found by drawing a line
tangent to the equilibrating polygon (or curve) parallel to a ray of the ..."
7. Mechanics of Fluids for Practical Men: Comprising Hydrostatics, Descriptive by Alexander Jamieson (1848)
"... stability of the body is proportional to the length of the equilibrating lever,
or to the horizontal distance between the vertical lines passing through ..."
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