coun
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weight
Plural
counterweights
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a mass used to provide balance to another mass
- The elevator uses a counterweight to help lift and lower the car smoothly.
- A crane's counterweight is essential for stabilizing heavy loads during construction.
- To balance the scale, she added a counterweight to the opposite side.
- The seesaw worked perfectly because each end had an equal counterweight.
- In the clock mechanism, the counterweight helps regulate the movement of the pendulum.