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balance weight

British

noun

Also called: bobweight. engineering a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft

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Both help a person balance weight across the knee.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2023

It can also be used as ballast to balance weight and provide stability in ships and aircraft.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2023

The need to balance weight against battery storage means the flight will end every night on a knife edge.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2015

To deflect the flow in the conduit, a wrought-iron plate, provided with a balance weight, is dropped into a groove on the lower side.

From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by Conway, George Robert Graham

This arm striking against the ratchet detent releases the balance weight, and the belt is at once brought on to the loose pulley.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various

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