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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Equality in distribution, as of weight, relationship, or emotional forces; equilibrium.
  2. n. A counterpoise; a counterbalance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An equal distribution of weight; equality of weight or force; just balance; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced or kept in equilibrium: as, hold the scales in equipoise.
  2. n. A balancing weight or force; a counterpoise.
  3. To bring into a state of equipoise or balance; hold in equipoise.
  4. To counterbalance.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A state of balance; equilibrium.
  2. n. A counterbalance.
  3. v. transitive To act or make to act as an equipoise.
  4. v. transitive To cause to be or stay in equipoise.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces.
  2. n. Counterpoise.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. equality of distribution

Etymologies

  1. From equi- +‎ poise. (Wiktionary)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. counterpoise
  1. balance
  1. equality

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  1. structure
  1. construction

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  1. proportion
  1. symmetry
  1. conformation

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  1. self-mastery
  2. poise
  3. equilibrium
  4. coördination
  1. collectedness
  2. imperturbability
  3. calmness
  4. oneness
  1. steadiness
  2. self-assurance
  3. self-possession
  4. nurture
  1. punctiliousness
  2. self-reliance
  3. hasto
  4. coexistence
  1. uprightness
  2. episcopacy
  3. uniter
  4. reticence
  1. concord
  2. renouncement
  3. impressionability
  4. annhiliation

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. equipoise
  2. equilibrate
  3. equilibration
  4. equilibrium
  1. equipendency
  2. equiponderance
  3. libratory
  4. counter-balanced
  1. equipendent
  2. equilibrize
  3. antilibration
  4. balance
  1. balancement
  2. equilibrioust
  3. equilibriously
  4. equilibrity
  1. librate
  2. counterpoised
  3. poise
  4. unbalanced
  1. balancer
  2. equiponderant
  3. level
  4. libration

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  • asniaasim (http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language%E2%80%A6/) Dec 20, 2010

  • john “Sometimes people fault Obama for being too cool. I can see their point 5 percent of the time, but 95 percent of the time, it’s good to have a president with equipoise.”

    The New York Times, The Calm, Cool and Collected President, by David Brooks and Gail Collins, May 5, 2010 May 5, 2010

  • dontcry Sounds to me like one of the points a judge would rate in an equestrian event. Oct 26, 2009

  • kewpid “A tense equipoise cur­rent­ly pre­vails among the Justices of the Supreme Court, where four hard-​core con­ser­va­tives face off against four moder­ate lib­er­als. An­tho­ny M. Kennedy is the swing vote, de­ter­min­ing the out­come of case after case.”
    — ‘The Choice’, The New Yorker (13 October 2008) Oct 4, 2008

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