1. counterbalance - Noun
2. counterbalance - Verb
To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel
A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnd I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life. Minoru Yamasaki
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance. Wim Wenders
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations. C. Wright Mills
My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible. Rachel Hartman
engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance Source: Internet