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equipoise

noun
/ˈɛkwɪpɔɪz/

Etymology

From equi- + poise.

  1. derived from pēnsum — “to weigh, ponder, think”
  2. derived from pois
  3. derived from pois
  4. inherited from poys
  5. prefixed as equipoise — “equi + poise”

Definitions

  1. A state of balance

    A state of balance; equilibrium.

    • Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.
    • “An easy evasion”, retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise.
    • The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes.

  2. A counterbalance.

    • Perhaps that quality which existed, in spite of the equipoise against it, in Sir Howard, was fidelity in friendship.
    • The cone's not fixed, it's hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an equipoise.
    • Her smiling equipoise is a statement of self-confident power against his sour fuming.

  3. To act or make to act as an equipoise.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To cause to be or stay in equipoise.

    2. Market name for the anabolic steroid boldenone undecylenate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for equipoise. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA