Usually means: Balance or stability through contrast.
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  1. counterpoise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. counterpoise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterpoise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterpoise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counterpoise: Vocabulary.com
  6. counterpoise: Wordnik
  7. counterpoise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. counterpoise: Wiktionary
  9. counterpoise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. counterpoise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. counterpoise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Counterpoise, counterpoise: Dictionary.com
  13. Counterpoise (ground system), Counterpoise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Counterpoise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. counterpoise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. counterpoise: Rhymezone
  17. Counterpoise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. counterpoise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. counterpoise: Free Dictionary
  20. counterpoise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. counterpoise: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. counterpoise: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. counterpoise: Legal dictionary

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  1. counterpoise: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (counterpoise)

noun:  A weight sufficient to balance another, for example in the opposite end of scales; an equal weight.
noun:  An effect of equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force or influence
noun:  The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium
verb:  To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
verb:  To act against with equal power; to balance.

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