different between equipoise vs balancement

English

Alternative forms

• æquipoise (archaic)

Etymology

From equi- +? poise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kw?p??z/

Noun

equipoise (uncountable)

1. A state of balance; equilibrium.
   • 1927–29, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part II, Raychandbhai, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai,

     And I saw him thus absorbed in godly pursuits in the midst of business, not once or twice, but very often. I never saw him lose his state of equipoise.

   • 2021, Ronald Mann, Justices to consider awards of costs of appellate litigation, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 20, 2021)

     To my mind, the textual arguments in this case are close to equipoise.

2. A counterbalance.

Derived terms

• clinical equipoise

Translations

Verb

equipoise (third-person singular simple present equipoises, present participle equipoising, simple past and past participle equipoised)

1. (transitive) To act or make to act as an equipoise.
2. (transitive) To cause to be or stay in equipoise.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

English

Etymology

balance +? -ment

Noun

balancement

1. The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise.

French

Etymology

From balancer +? -ment

Noun

balancement m (plural balancements)

1. rocking, swaying
2. equilibrium, balance

Further reading

• “balancement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).