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 |
Beam
(n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
Beam
(n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. |
Beam
(n.) The width of a vessel |
Beam
(n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. |
Beam
(n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. |
Beam
(n.) The pole of a carriage. |
Beam
(n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving |
Beam
(n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. |
Beam
(n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. |
Beam
(n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft |
Beam
(n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body |
Beam
(n.) Fig.: A ray |
Beam
(n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk |
Beam
(v. t.) To send forth |
Beam
(v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
Beam tree
() A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. |
Hammer-beam
(n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam. |
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 | long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction |
| beam | the broad side of a ship, they sighted land on the port beam |
| beam balance | a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm |
box beam
box girder | a beam built up from boards, has a hollow rectangular cross section |
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 |
| I-beam | girder having a cross section resembling the letter `I' |
spring balance
spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
steelyard
lever scale
beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
| tie tie beam | a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating, he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam |
| torsion balance | measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire |
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 |
| beam | (nautical) breadth amidships |
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 |
radio beam
beam | a signal transmitted along a narrow path, guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather |
| beam-ends | (nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel, on her beam-ends means heeled over on the side so that the deck is almost vertical |
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 |
beam
beam of light
light beam
ray
ray of light
shaft
shaft of light
irradiation | a column of light (as from a beacon) |
| beam ray electron beam | a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation |
| high beam | the beam of a car's headlights that provides distant illumination |
| laser beam | a beam of light generated by a laser |
| low beam | the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance |
| particle beam | a collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules) |
ion beam
ionic beam | a beam of ions moving in the same direction at the same speed |
| 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 |
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 |
| balance | a state of equilibrium |
| balance of power | an equilibrium of power between nations |
| dynamic balance | (aeronautics) the state of equilibrium in which centrifugal forces due to a rotating mass (e.g., a propeller) do not produce force in the shaft and so vibration is reduced |
| electrolyte balance | an equilibrium between the amounts of electrolytes (as calcium and sodium and potassium) that is essential for normal health and functioning |
| nitrogen balance | the balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted) |
mental soundness
mental balance | the healthy psychological state of someone with good judgment |
| balance-of-payments problem | an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports |
| beam | smile radiantly, express joy through one's facial expression |
air send broadcast beam
transmit
| broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television, We cannot air this X-rated song |