Definition of balance

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Balance (n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.

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Balance :: Balance (n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind..
Balance :: Balance (n.) An apparatus for weighing.
Balance :: Balance (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance..
Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.
Level :: Level (a.) Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [Colloq.].
Poise :: Poise (v.) The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed..
Balance :: Balance (n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books..
Balance :: Balance (n.) The constellation Libra.
Counterbalanced :: Counterbalanced (imp. & p. p.) of Counterbalanc.
Clear :: Clear (v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house..
Compensate :: Compensate (v. t.) To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
Weigh :: Weigh (v. t.) To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
Poise :: Poise (n.) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
Sensibility :: Sensibility (n.) That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer..
Bolometer :: Bolometer (n.) An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance..
Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel.
Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam..
Balancer :: Balancer (n.) One who balances, or uses a balance..
Escapement :: Escapement (n.) The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration..
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