balance weight


noun

engineering a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft Also called: bobweight

Example sentences from the Web for balance weight

  • The ball or balance-weight of a clock's pendulum; the weight attached to the plumb-line.

    The Sailor's Word-Book |William Henry Smyth
  • At present the balance-weight is so placed that the gyrostat would fall if it were not spinning.

    Spinning Tops |John Perry