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How to pronounce “counterweight”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of counterweight with real speech in context.
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- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
but the idea is that you float a counterweight on a tether
- Definition summary
- A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge).
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How to pronounce counterweight
How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
but the idea is that you float a counterweight on a tether
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A Deep Dive Into “counterweight”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge).
- (figurative) A counterbalance.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To fit with a counterweight.
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