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Meaning of balance
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
balance
n 1: a state of equilibrium [ant: {imbalance}, {instability},
{unbalance}]
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); "in all perfectly beautiful
objects there is found the opposition of one part to another
and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin [syn: {proportion},
{proportionality}, {balance}]
4: equality of distribution [syn: {balance}, {equilibrium},
{equipoise}, {counterbalance}]
5: something left after other parts have been taken away; "there
was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he
wanted and I got the balance" [syn: {remainder}, {balance},
{residual}, {residue}, {residuum}, {rest}]
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
[syn: {Libra}, {Balance}]
8: the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
about September 23 to October 22 [syn: {Libra}, {Libra the
Balance}, {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 [syn: {symmetry}, {symmetricalness}, {correspondence},
{balance}] [ant: {asymmetry}, {dissymmetry}, {imbalance}]
10: a weight that balances another weight [syn: {counterweight},
{counterbalance}, {counterpoise}, {balance}, {equalizer},
{equaliser}]
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 [syn: {balance wheel},
{balance}]
12: a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
v 1: bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work
and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights" [syn:
{balance}, {equilibrate}, {equilibrize}, {equilibrise}]
[ant: {unbalance}]
2: compute credits and debits of an account
3: hold or carry in equilibrium [syn: {poise}, {balance}]
4: be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot"
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