counterbalance

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkaʊntəˈbæləns/
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• General-American: /ˌkaʊntɚˈbæləns/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AW1 N T ER0 B AE2 L AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi- Latin lanx Latin bilanx Vulgar Latin *bilancia Old French balancebor. Middle English balaunce English balance English counterbalance From counter- + balance.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: ثِقْل مُوَازِن (ṯiql muwāzin) — weight balancing an opposite one
• Arabic: سَقُوم (saqūm) — weight balancing an opposite one
• Azerbaijani: əks-çəki — weight balancing an opposite one
• Bulgarian: противоте́жест (protivotéžest) — weight balancing an opposite one
• Chinese Mandarin: 抗衡力 (kànghénglì) — weight balancing an opposite one
• Czech: protizávaží — weight balancing an opposite one
• Czech: protiváha — weight balancing an opposite one
• Dutch: tegenwicht — weight balancing an opposite one
• Finnish: vastapaino — weight balancing an opposite one
• French: contrepoids — weight balancing an opposite one
• German: Gegengewicht — weight balancing an opposite one
• Ancient Greek: σήκωμα (sḗkōma) — weight balancing an opposite one
• Gujarati: ધડો (dhaḍo) — weight balancing an opposite one
• Italian: contrappeso — weight balancing an opposite one
• Kazakh: қарсы салмақ (qarsy salmaq) — weight balancing an opposite one
• Macedonian: противтежа (protivteža) — weight balancing an opposite one
• Malay: imbang balas — weight balancing an opposite one
• Norwegian Bokmål: motvekt — weight balancing an opposite one
• Norwegian Nynorsk: motvekt — weight balancing an opposite one
• Polish: przeciwwaga — weight balancing an opposite one
• Portuguese: contrapeso — weight balancing an opposite one
• Russian: противове́с (protivovés) — weight balancing an opposite one
• Serbo-Croatian: protuteža — weight balancing an opposite one
• Spanish: contrabalanza — weight balancing an opposite one
• Swedish: motvikt — weight balancing an opposite one
• Turkish: denge ağırlığı — weight balancing an opposite one
• Ottoman Turkish: دنك (denk) — weight balancing an opposite one
• Arabic: ثِقْل مُوَازِن (ṯiql muwāzin) — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Arabic: مُوَازَنَة (muwāzana) — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Bulgarian: балансьо́р (balansjór) — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Finnish: vastavoima — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Finnish: vastapaino — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• French: contrepoids — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• German: Gegengewicht — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• German: Gegenkraft — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Macedonian: противтежа (protivteža) — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Malay: imbang balas — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Norwegian Bokmål: motvekt — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Norwegian Nynorsk: motvekt — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Portuguese: contrapeso — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Russian: противове́с (protivovés) — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Spanish: contrabalanza — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Swedish: motvikt — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Ottoman Turkish: دنك (denk) — force or influence balancing an opposite one
• Arabic: وَازَنَ (wāzana) — to apply weight in order to balance
• Bulgarian: уравновеся́вам (uravnovesjávam) — to apply weight in order to balance
• Chinese Mandarin: 相抵 (xiāngdǐ) — to apply weight in order to balance
• Czech: vyvážit — to apply weight in order to balance
• Finnish: tasapainottaa — to apply weight in order to balance
• French: contrebalancer — to apply weight in order to balance
• Malay: imbang balas — to apply weight in order to balance
• Malay: mengimbang balas — to apply weight in order to balance
• Norwegian: motveie — to apply weight in order to balance
• Portuguese: contrabalancear — to apply weight in order to balance
• Portuguese: contrapesar — to apply weight in order to balance
• Romanian: contrabalansa — to apply weight in order to balance
• Romanian: cumpăni — to apply weight in order to balance
• Russian: уравнове́шивать (uravnovéšivatʹ) — to apply weight in order to balance
• Spanish: contrabalancear — to apply weight in order to balance
• Arabic: وَازَنَ (wāzana) — to match or equal in effect when applying opposing force
• Bulgarian: уравновеся́вам (uravnovesjávam) — to match or equal in effect when applying opposing force
• Bulgarian: баланси́рам (balansíram) — to match or equal in effect when applying opposing force
• Chinese Mandarin: 抵消 (dǐxiāo) — to match or equal in effect when applying opposing force
• French: contre-balancer — to match or equal in effect when applying opposing force
• Malay: imbang balas — to match or equal in effect when applying opposing force
• Malay: mengimbang balas — to match or equal in effect when applying opposing force
• Norwegian: motveie — to match or equal in effect when applying opposing force
• Portuguese: contrapesar — to match or equal in effect when applying opposing force