counterbalancing
/kˈaʊntɚbˌælənsɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
present participle and gerund of counterbalance
noun
The act by which something is counterbalanced.
Example Sentences
- ""The ability of these large locomotives to run at such high speeds without pounding themselves to pieces", my correspondent concludes, "is a tribute to the vast improvement in the counterbalancing of American locomotives since a day in October, 1904, when one pair of the driving wheels of a Baldwin Atlantic type balanced compound lifted off the supported wheel of the St. Louis testing-plant when exerting no more than 320 h.p."