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Balance   /bˈæləns/   Listen
Balance

noun
1.
A state of equilibrium.  Antonym: imbalance.
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.  Antonym: asymmetry.
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"  Antonym: unbalance.
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



... that the others do not grow fast enough? This sounds invidious and perhaps somewhat boastful; but it is you and not I who have instituted the comparison. It strikes me you have not hit upon the best remedy for this want of balance. If symmetry is to be obtained by cutting down the most vigorous growth, it seems to me it would be better to have a little irregularity here and there. In stimulating, by every means in my power, the growth of the Museum and the means of education ...
— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz
... cut more is exploitation. But there may come an emergency, say the need for aeroplane spruce in a war, when the year's allowance must be exceeded. An alert government will recognize that and regard the restoration of the balance as a charge upon ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann
... Zhid cries, of our best visions rob us not! Mankind a future life must have to balance lifes unequal lot. ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... your letter of February 26th. Considering your difficulty of hearing, I think you had better settle in Chicago, if, as you say, a good man already in fair practice there will take you into partnership. If you had not that difficulty, I still should think it an even balance whether you would not better remain in Chicago, with such ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
... since 1976; yet in that same 6-year period we ran the largest series of deficits in our history. In 1980 tax revenues increased by $54 billion, and in 1980 we had one of our all-time biggest deficits. Raising taxes won't balance the budget; it will encourage more government spending and less private investment. Raising taxes will slow economic growth, reduce production, and destroy future jobs, making it more difficult for those without jobs to find them and ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Ronald Reagan • Ronald Reagan


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