See Also: milli-(medicine)
milli-(dictionary)
milli-(dictionary)
Milli Gazete(finance)

counterbalance (oh) and milli- (iou)


counterbalance (oh)



to have an equal and opposite effect to something such as a change, feeling etc
::Riskier investments tend to be counterbalanced by high rewards.
-- counterbalance /5kaUntE7bAlEns ?@ -tEr-/ n [C]

milli- (iou)



milli- combining form.
[from Latin mille thousand + -I-.]
Used in names of units of measurement to denote a factor of one-thousandth (103), as millicurie, millimole, milliwatt; also occas. combined with micro- to denote a factor of 109 (corresp. to NANO-), as millimicroampere, millimicromole. Abbreviation m.
millibar noun (Meteorology) the usual unit of barometric pressure, equal to a thousandth of a bar (100 pascals) E20.
milliosmole noun (Physical Chemistry) an amount of an osmotically effective ion in solution equal to a milligram divided by the atomic mass of the ion M20.