Definition of balance

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Balance (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them..

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Drosometer :: Drosometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew..
Counterscale :: Counterscale (n.) Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another..
Balance :: Balance (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back..
Trip :: Trip (n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces..
Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (v. t.) To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
Outbalance :: Outbalance (v. t.) To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect.
Libratory :: Libratory (a.) Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level..
Balance :: Balance (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance..
Equibalanced :: Equibalanced (imp. & p. p.) of Equibalanc.
Balance :: Balance (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
Overbalance :: Overbalance (v. t.) To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
Equibalance :: Equibalance (v. t.) To make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate.
Equibalance :: Equibalance (n.) Equal weight; equiponderance.
Offset :: Offset (v. t.) To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another..
Poise :: Poise (n.) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance)..
Equivalence :: Equivalence (v. t.) To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.
Balance :: Balance (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate..
Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..
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