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counterpoise [′kau̇nt·ər‚pȯiz] (electricity) A system of wires or other conductors that is elevated above and insulated from the ground to form a lower system of conductors for an antenna. Also known as antenna counterpoise. (mechanical engineering) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Splotch #3, 2000, thus brought to mind Gabriel Orozco's incisive Isla dentro de la isla (Island Within an Island), 1993, a photograph of a makeshift re-creation of Lower Manhattan counterpoising the "real" scene (World Trade Center included) in the background. Benjamin traces Malthusian rhetoric in contemporary population scholarship and family planning policies, justified as "progressive" no matter how extreme, detrimental, repressive, or regressive the strategies, while counterpoising development stories (success stories, horror stories) with literary portrayals of childbirth and pregnancy in Ismail's text. There is an element of simplistic categorization in portraying the upper class Raj and his family as decadent, and counterpoising Prem and his family as morally good. |
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