equipoise

name

1. Market name for the anabolic steroid boldenone undecylenate.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *aikʷos Latin aiquos Latin aequus Latin aequi-der. English equi- English poise English equipoise From equi- + poise.

1. A state of balance; equilibrium.

   “Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.”

   ““An easy evasion”, retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise.”

2. A counterbalance.

   “Perhaps that quality which existed, in spite of the equipoise against it, in Sir Howard, was fidelity in friendship.”

   “The cone's not fixed, it's hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an equipoise.”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *aikʷos Latin aiquos Latin aequus Latin aequi-der. English equi- English poise English equipoise From equi- + poise.

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