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Words with a similar base: balance, balance_wheel, counterbalance

'balance'

[balance.n.01] as in: a state of equilibrium

'balance'

[balance.n.02] as in: equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

'balance'

[proportion.n.05] as in: harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); - John Ruskin

Examples:
in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance

'balance'

[balance.n.04] as in: equality of distribution

'balance'

[remainder.n.01] as in: something left after other parts have been taken away

Examples:
there was no remainder
he threw away the rest
he took what he wanted and I got the balance

'balance'

[balance.n.06] as in: the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

'balance'

[libra.n.01] as in: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra

'balance'

[libra.n.03] as in: the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22

'balance'

[symmetry.n.01] as in: (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane

'balance'

[counterweight.n.01] as in: a weight that balances another weight

'balance'

[balance_wheel.n.01] as in: 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'

[balance.n.12] as in: a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity

'balance'

[balance.v.01] as in: bring into balance or equilibrium

Examples:
She has to balance work and her domestic duties
balance the two weights

'balance'

[balance.v.02] as in: compute credits and debits of an account

'balance'

[poise.v.04] as in: hold or carry in equilibrium

'balance'

[balance.v.04] as in: be in equilibrium

Examples:
He was balancing on one foot

Origins

					balance (English)
└── balance (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))