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counterweight [′kau̇nt·ər‚wāt]

(mechanical engineering)

A device which counterbalances the original load in elevators and skip and mine hoists, going up when the load goes down, so that the engine must only drive against the unbalanced load and overcome friction.

Any weight placed on a mechanism which is out of balance so as to maintain static equilibrium. Also known as counterbalance; counterpoise.

counterweight

1. A weight that just balances another weight.

2. In a theater stagehouse, a weight (usually of iron, sand, or shot) used to balance suspended scenery, or the like.

Counterweight

(also, counterbalance, counterpoise), a weight used for the complete or partial balancing of forces and moments in machines or their parts. The installation of counterweights on rotating parts, such as crankshafts, can eliminate the harmful effects of centrifugal forces originating from off-center masses.

In metalcutting machine tools, hoists, deep-well plunger pumps, and similar machines with vertically or obliquely moving parts, counterweights reduce the drive power. In hoisting cranes, counterweights provide stability; the arm and weight of the crane’s counterweight are selected to balance the moment of the weight of the mechanisms and metal frame together with half of the moment of a rated load. Counterweights are usually made in the form of a set of pig-iron or concrete bars or slabs.

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without examination, to deny what has been said, I wish it to be considered that the motion which I have now explained follows as necessarily from the very arrangement of the parts, which may be observed in the heart by the eye alone, and from the heat which may be felt with the fingers, and from the nature of the blood as learned from experience, as does the motion of a clock from the power, the situation, and shape of its counterweights and wheels.

Reason For Discourse by Descartes, Rene View in context

counterpoise method

Counterpreparation

counterpropagating beams

Counterrevolutionary Revolt of 1956 in Hungary

Counterrotor Unit

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