equipoise
UK /ˈɛkwɪpɔɪz/ US /ˈɛkwɪpɔɪz/
noun 2verb 2name 1
Definitions
noun
1
A state of balance; equilibrium.
Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.
“An easy evasion”, retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise.
2
A counterbalance.
Perhaps that quality which existed, in spite of the equipoise against it, in Sir Howard, was fidelity in friendship.
The cone's not fixed, it's hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an equipoise.
verb
1
To act or make to act as an equipoise.
2
To cause to be or stay in equipoise.
name
1
Market name for the anabolic steroid boldenone undecylenate.
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