0 present participle of counterbalance
1 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.
Inclusion of counterbalancing forces implies that alternative options can be put on the agenda and shared understandings are unlikely to develop.
It is the transfer of the property right to the emission reduction capacity that creates counterbalancing incentive for the agent, as will be shown below.
Counterbalancing this consideration was the benefit of a recruit's familiarity with sociocultural and other features of the province he patrolled, including knowledge of the terrain.
It comes very close to the ideal type policy community, in particular since there are no counterbalancing forces in the network.
In other words, are the labour unions and ministries counterbalancing forces?
In addition, sentences were constructed so that real world event probability was eliminated as a confounding variable, by counterbalancing assignment of actors and actions.
Four different study-test list combinations were generated for counterbalancing purposes.
Prioritarian weighing and equality-aggregation can be conceived, then, as two counterbalancing mechanisms.
