Overview of noun balance

The noun balance has 12 senses

• balance -- (a state of equilibrium)


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


• 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)


• balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance -- (equality of distribution)


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


• Libra, Balance -- ((astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra)


• 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)


• 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)


• counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, balance, equalizer, equaliser -- (a weight that balances another weight)


• 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)


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

Overview of verb balance

The verb balance has 4 senses

• balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise -- (bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights")


• balance -- (compute credits and debits of an account)


• poise, balance -- (hold or carry in equilibrium)


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