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Balance

noun

1.

A state of equilibrium.

2.

Equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account.

3.

Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design). Synonyms: proportion, proportionality.

4.

Equality of distribution. Synonyms: counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise.

5.

Something left after other parts have been taken away. Synonyms: remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest. "He threw away the rest" , "He took what he wanted and I got the balance"

6.

The difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account.

7.

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra. Synonym: Libra.

8.

The seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22. Synonyms: Libra, Libra the Balance, Libra the Scales.

9.

(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane. Synonyms: correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry.

10.

A weight that balances another weight. Synonyms: counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer.

11.

A wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat. Synonym: balance wheel.

12.

A scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity.

verb

(past & past part. balanced; pres. part. balancing)

1.

Bring into balance or equilibrium. Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize. "Balance the two weights"

2.

Compute credits and debits of an account.

3.

Hold or carry in equilibrium. Synonym: poise.

4.

Be in equilibrium.

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"Balance" Quotes from Famous Books

... so nearly upon the heels of the second pair that it was really impossible for them to avoid following in their wake. Thus there were by this time six struggling figures at the foot of the steps, while the balance of the patrol huddled just above, looking with amazement ...

— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren

... the meaning of these apertures there came a repetition of the weird cry, but this time the lad was so startled that he almost lost his balance ...

— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... speed and haste to get across the Atlantic may have tempted captains to take a risk they might otherwise not have done, so these gloomy forebodings may have more effect sometimes than we imagine. Only a little thing is required sometimes to weigh down the balance for and against ...

— The Loss of the SS. Titanic • Lawrence Beesley

... truth. "He was a man," says Felt, "of deep discernment, whom neither wealth nor honor could allure from duty. He poised with an equal balance the authority of the King, and the liberty of the people. Sincere in Religion and pure in his life, he overcame and ...

— Anne Bradstreet and Her Time • Helen Campbell

... darkness underneath where the evil-doers are punished. In the S'atapatha Brahma@na we find that the dead pass between two fires which burn the evil-doers, but let the good go by [Footnote ref 1]; it is also said there that everyone is born again after death, is weighed in a balance, and receives reward or punishment according as his works are good or bad. It is easy to see that scattered ideas like these with regard to the destiny of the soul of man according to the sacrifice that he performs or other good or bad deeds form the first rudiments of the later doctrine of metempsychosis. ...

— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

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