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Definition of Equiponderant
1. a. Being of the same weight.
Definition of Equiponderant
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Having equal weight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Equiponderant
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equiponderant
Literary usage of Equiponderant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lexiphanes: A Dialogue. Imitated from Lucian, and Suited to the Present by Archibald Campbell (1774)
"... were now fo nearly equiponderant, that they lay in the trepi- * The above is
the definition given of oats by ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1836)
"... and that the beautiful theorem of three distinct and equiponderant powers,
holding the state in equilibria, would be the certain and unalterable result ..."
3. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"He that can have a doubt about this till it be tried, may as well demand a trial
to be made, to prove that the same thing is equiponderant, or equivalent to ..."
4. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1836)
"If two bodies, one of which is more bulky than the other, be found equiponderant
in the ordinary process of weighing by a balance, the larger body is the ..."
5. An Experimental Inquiry Into the Nature and Propagation of Heat by John Leslie (1804)
"And thus the velocity with which a gaseous fluid rushes into a vacuum is equal
to that acquired by a perpendicular descent through the equiponderant column. ..."
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