Balance (n.) An apparatus for weighing. |
Balance (n.) Act of weighing mentally |
Balance (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales. |
Balance (n.) The state of being in equipoise |
Balance (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account |
Balance (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). |
Balance (n.) The constellation Libra. |
Balance (n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. |
Balance (n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S. |
Balance (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights |
Balance (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling |
Balance (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion |
Balance (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc. |
Balance (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account |
Balance (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal |
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 |
Balance (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally |
Balance (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass |
Balance (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side |
Balance (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force |
Balance (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back. |
Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock |
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). |
Balance wheel () A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine |
Counter weight (n.) A counterpoise. |
Weight (v. t.) The quality of being heavy |
Weight (v. t.) The quantity of heaviness |
Weight (v. t.) Hence, pressure |
Weight (v. t.) Importance |
Weight (v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness |
Weight (v. t.) A ponderous mass |
Weight (v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies |
Weight (v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. |
Weight (v. t.) To load with a weight or weights |
Weight (v. t.) To assign a weight to |
weight gaining | bodybuilding that increases muscle mass and body weight |
analytical balance chemical balance | a beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis |
balance | a scale for weighing, depends on pull of gravity |
balance beam beam | a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts |
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 |
beam balance | a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm |
counterweight counterbalance counterpoise balance equalizer equaliser | a weight that balances another weight |
electronic balance | a balance that generates a current proportional to the displacement of the pan |
sash weight | a counterweight for a sliding sash |
spring balance spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
torsion balance | measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire |
weight | an artifact that is heavy |
weight free weight exercising weight | sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting, it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms |
atomic mass atomic weight relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units |
molecular weight relative molecular mass | (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule |
equivalent equivalent weight combining weight eq | the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element, the standard is for oxygen |
weight | the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity |
body weight | the weight of a person's body |
reporting weight | a person's body weight (as an athlete's) at the beginning of the season (when first reporting for practice) |
dead weight | a heavy motionless weight |
throw-weight | the weight of the payload of a missile (not including the weight of the rocket) |
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 |
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 |
weight weightiness | the relative importance granted to something, his opinion carries great weight, the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed |
equilibrium labyrinthine sense vestibular sense sense of balance sense of equilibrium | a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head |
dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
weight | an oppressive feeling of heavy force, bowed down by the weight of responsibility |
Libra Libra the Balance Balance Libra the Scales | the seventh sign of the zodiac, the sun is in this sign from about September to October |
Libra Balance | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra |
gainer weight gainer | a person who gains weight |
low-birth-weight baby low-birth-weight infant | an infant born weighing less than . pounds ( grams) regardless of gestational age, a low-birth-weight infant is at risk for developing lack of oxygen during labor |
balance sheet | a record of the financial situation of an institution on a particular date by listing its assets and the claims against those assets |
balance | equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account |
balance | the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account |
balance of trade trade balance visible balance trade gap | the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise, a nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports |
compensating balance offsetting balance | a minimum credit balance that a bank may require a borrower to keep on deposit as a condition for granting a loan, a common requirement for establishing a line of credit at a bank, the compensating balance increases the effective interest rate to the bank since the net amount loaned is reduced but the interest paid is unchanged |
invisible balance | the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of services and payments of property incomes |
balance of payments balance of international payments | a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year, a favorable balance of payments exists when more payments are coming in than going out |
trial balance | a balance of debits and credits in double-entry bookkeeping, drawn up to test their equality |
acid-base equilibrium acid-base balance | (physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body, with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is slightly alkaline |
weight weighting | (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance |
weight unit weight | a unit used to measure weight, he placed two weights in the scale pan |
system of weights weight | a system of units used to express the weight of something |
avoirdupois avoirdupois weight | a system of weights based on the -ounce pound (or , grains) |
troy troy weight | a system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones, based on a -ounce pound and an ounce ofgrains |
apothecaries' unit apothecaries' weight | any weight unit used in pharmacy, an ounce is equal tograins and a pound is equal to ounces |
metric weight unit weight unit | a decimal unit of weight based on the gram |
gram atom gram-atomic weight | the quantity of an element whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the atomic weight of the element |
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 |
balance equilibrium equipoise counterbalance | equality of distribution |