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Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way. South.

sswise, and parallel with the rabbet of the keel lengthwise. Level surface (Physics), an equipotential surface at right angles at every point to the lines of force.

Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level.

ngent is the direction of the resultant of all the forces. It cuts at right angles every equipotential surface which it meets. Specifically (Magnetism), a line in proximity to a magnet so drawn that any point in it is tangential with the direction of a short compass needle held at that point. Faraday. -- Line of life…

The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest. Bentley.

used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events. [Written also quipo.] Tylor. The mysterious science of the quipus . . . supplied the Peruvians with the means of communicating their ideas to one another, and of transmitting them to future generations. Prescott.

Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise. Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly. Pope.

d by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised. Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom. Bacon.