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English
Verb
counterbalancing
- present participle and gerund of counterbalance
Noun
counterbalancing (plural counterbalancings)
- The act by which something is counterbalanced.
1964 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 193:"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.