Also 7–8 æquilibration. [f. as prec.: see -ATION.] The action of bringing into or keeping in equilibrium; the state or condition of being evenly balanced. Applied both to material and immaterial things. Const. to, with. Arch of equilibration (see quot.).
1612. Brerewood, Lang. & Relig., xiv. 149. And so the opposite halfs of the earth … be brought on all sides, about the center, unto a perfect equilibration.
1625. Jackson, Creed, V. vii. Wks. IV. 60. Simple Atheism consists in an equilibration of the mind.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., II. 102. It comes to an æquilibration with those circumjacent Bodies.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 111, ¶ 3. Drowsy equilibrations of undetermined counsel.
1772. Hutton, Bridges, 16. ABCD shall be an arch of equilibration, or be in equilibrium in all its parts.
1819. Playfair, Nat. Phil., I. 147. An arch, of which the parts balance one another in this manner [by their weight only], is called an Arch of Equilibration.
1869. Tyndall, in Fortn. Rev., Feb., 228. The position of every atom … is determined by the equilibration of these two forces.
