Definition of balance

Overview of noun balance

The noun balance has 12 senses? (first 3 from tagged texts)

1. (28) balance

(a state of equilibrium)

2. (3) balance

(equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)

3. (1) proportion, proportionality, balance

(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)

4. balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance

(equality of distribution)

5. remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest

(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")

6. balance

(the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)

7. Libra, Balance

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

8. Libra, Libra the Balance, Balance, Libra the Scales

(the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22)

9. symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence, balance

((mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane)

10. counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, balance, equalizer, equaliser

(a weight that balances another weight)

11. balance wheel, balance

(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)

12. balance

(a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity)

Overview of verb balance

The verb balance has 4 senses? (first 4 from tagged texts)

1. (6) balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise

(bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights")

2. (3) balance

(compute credits and debits of an account)

3. (2) poise, balance

(hold or carry in equilibrium)

4. (1) balance

(be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot")