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 |
| cash bar | a counter at a large party where you can purchase drinks by the glass |
cash machine
cash dispenser
automated teller machine
automatic teller machine
automated teller
automatic teller
ATM | an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used |
cash register
register | a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions, used in shops to add up the bill |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
moneymaker
money-spinner
cash cow | a project that generates a continuous flow of money |
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 |
Cash
Johnny Cash
John Cash | United States country music singer and songwriter (-) |
| cash crop | a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco) |
| cash flow | the excess of cash revenues over cash outlays in a give period of time (not including nonash expenses) |
| cash surrender value | the amount that the insurance company will pay on a given life insurance policy if the policy is cancelled prior to the death of the insured |
spot price
cash price | the current delivery price of a commodity traded in the spot market |
| cash account | an account with a securities brokerage whose transactions are settled on a cash basis |
funds
finances
monetary resource
cash in hand
pecuniary resource | assets in the form of money |
| cash equivalent | a highly liquid debt instrument with maturities of less than three months |
advance
cash advance | an amount paid before it is earned |
cash card
cashcard | a credit card that entitles the holder to receive cash |
| cash immediate payment | prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check |
cash
hard cash
hard currency | money in the form of bills or coins, there is a desperate shortage of hard cash |
| 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 |
| cash basis | a method of accounting in which each item is entered as payments are received or made |
| 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 |
| petty cash | a small fund of cash that a firm keeps for the payment of incidental expenses |
ready cash
cold cash
ready money | money in the form of cash that is readily available, his wife was always a good source of ready cash, he paid cold cash for the TV set |
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 |