counterbalancing
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1. counterbalancing - Noun
2. counterbalancing - Verb
Meaning
of Counterbalance
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Bennett found that the crests of females had no counterbalancing effect, and that the crests of male P. sternbergi would, by themselves, have a negative effect on the balance of the head.
The funicular of Fribourg is special since it utilizes waste water, coming from the upper part of the city, for counterbalancing.
Some evolutionary biologists, on the other hand, view it as an undirected emergent property of the ecosystem: as each individual species pursues its own self-interest, their combined actions tend to have counterbalancing effects on environmental change.
Services to Blackpool, Manchester and Liverpool were all up providing an increase in Northwest traffic of 1,260 passengers, virtually counterbalancing the net fall in London routes of 1,280.
The arms, which could exert a lot of force but were likely covered in long feathers, may have been used as flapping stabilizers for balance while atop a struggling prey animal, along with the stiff counterbalancing tail.
The former was viewed as the administrative head of state and the latter as a spiritual and national head of state, with real power counterbalancing that of the king, but during the long reign of Sobhuza II the role of the Ndlovukati became more symbolic.