0 a situation in which things are perfectly balanced:
There is in the artist's landscapes a delicate equipoise between the natural and the man-made.
If the evidence for and against the defendant's guilt is in equipoise, then the burden of proof is on the prosecution.
This means that they should be in equipoise or better between trial arms and all other available alternatives.
Liberalism flourished in this comparatively sunny climate-although the "equipoise" was often qualified by the common dread of war.
There is sufficient equipoise to justify these trials.
Lack of equipoise often made it hard for drug therapists to advocate buprenorphine for their patients.
To be ethical, a trial must have the potential to disturb this state of "equipoise" and thereby change practice.
It did however, help the research team understand why equipoise was a problem, yet this issue was beyond their control.
He called that condition 'man in equipoise', and we might call it health sustained.
He said something about the need for a balance and equipoise—although that is not the word he used—as between nuclear and conventional forces.
