0 past simple and past 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.
In a separate session, the orientations of the gratings were reversed so that each eye viewed each orientation in a counterbalanced design.
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.
There, more recent poor performance was somewhat counterbalanced by traditionally better performance, and by historical association with liberation from foreign influence and landowner domination.
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.
Low cercarial infectivity at lower temperatures is offset by low mortality, while improved infectivity at higher temperatures is counterbalanced by high mortality.