[n. of action f. med.L. æquiponderāre: see prec. and -ATION.] The action or process of making equally balanced, or putting in equipoise; the state or condition of being in equipoise.
1656. trans. Hobbes’ Elem. Philos. (1839), 351. Equiponderation is when the endeavour of one body, which presses one of the beams, resists the endeavour of another body pressing the other beam, so that neither of them is moved.
1784. J. Barry, Lect. Art, iii. (1848), 129. The anatomy of the human body … the equiponderation of its parts.
1874. Edin. Rev., No. 285, 175. Equiponderation, or the relation of equipoise and balance.
