0 to have an equal but opposite effect on something so that it does not have too much of a particular characteristic:
The ugliness of the resort is counterbalanced by the excellence of the skiing.
1 to have an equal but opposite effect on something in a positive way, so that it does not have too much of a particular characteristic:
2 something that has an equal and opposite effect on something in a positive way:
All children took part in two tasks, with the order of task administration counterbalanced across children.
In each version, the order of the scenarios was held constant, but the order of the conditions was counterbalanced.
The tests listed below were administered at each assessment with test versions being counterbalanced across participants and design.
Practical experience shows that the advantages and disadvantages nearly counterbalance each other: binary heaps are only marginally faster.
There, more recent poor performance was somewhat counterbalanced by traditionally better performance, and by historical association with liberation from foreign influence and landowner domination.
A counterbalance in the patient selection process is the fact that organ allocation systems are weighted for higher risk patients (critically ill, previously sensitized).
The order of lists was counterbalanced across subjects in each group.
For the second session, the dyads were instructed to enact the two scripted events (in counterbalanced order) using script-appropriate toys.
