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Same as Quipu.

-- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow.

Equality of power, force, signification, or application. Boyle.

Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon.

With equal power. Barrow.

Equality of weight; equipoise.

Being of the same weight. A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke.

To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. "More than equiponderated the declension in that direction." De Quincey.

Having equal weight. Bailey.

Of equal weight on both sides; balanced. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.

A balancing; equipoise. [R.] De Quincey.

Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. [R.] Darwin.

with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature. Sir W. Hamilton.…

The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrum; equiponderance. The pendulous round eart, with balanced air, In counterpoise. Milton.

TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

Equal weight; equiponderance.

ance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise. H. Spenser.

Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise. In . . . running, leaping, and dancing, nature's laws of equilibration are observed. J. Denham.