verb
- Adjust for.
- usage: "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
- synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up
- Contrast with equal weight or force.
- synonyms: oppose, counterbalance
- Oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions.
- usage: "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues"
- synonyms: counteract, countervail, neutralize, counterbalance
adjective
- Brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another.
- synonyms: counterpoised
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