Look up: counterpoise

1. 
   counterpoise
   Horizontal metal surface underneath a VHF omnirange (VOR) beacon providing a fixed earth potential to the antenna. (ICAO) Category: Management in the public and private sector • a conductor,or group of conductors,placed above the earth and used in association with an aerial system.It is insulated from the earth and replaces the earth system Category: Electrical engineering and energ...
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
2. 
   Counterpoise
   Coun'ter·poise` transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Counterpoised (-poizd`); present participle & verbal noun Counterpoising .] [ Middle English countrepesen , counterpeisen , F. contrepeser . See Counter , adverb , and Poise , transitive ver ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/172
   
   
3. 
   Counterpoise
   Coun'ter·poise` noun [ Middle English countrepese , Old French contrepois , F. contrepods . See Counter , adv ., and Poise , noun ] 1. A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight. « Fastening that to our exact balance, we put a metalline counterpoise into the ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/173
   
   
4. 
   Counterpoise
   • (n.) An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force. • (n.) A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight. • (v. t.) To act against with equal power; to balance. • (n.) The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equ...
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
5. 
   counterpoise
   (from the article `military technology`) In general, the mechanical artillery of medieval times was inferior to that of the Classical world. The one exception was the trebuchet, an engine ...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/150
   
   
6. 
   counterpoise
   in electronics, portion of an antenna system that is composed of wires or other types of conductor arranged in a circular pattern at the base of the ...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/150
   
   
7. 
   counterpoise
   counterpoise A weight or force that balances another to which it is opposite; for instance, two children on a seesaw.
   Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf
   
   
8. 
   counterpoise
   a conductor, or system of conductors, buried in the ground, and connected to the footings of the supports of the line
   Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/
   
   
9. 
   counterpoise
   a system of conductors, elevated above and capacitively coupled to the ground, to provide the conductive surface for a vertical monopole antenna
   Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/