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Definition of Equipoising
1. equipoise [v] - See also: equipoise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equipoising
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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