Look up: balance

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   Balance
   A desireable harmony of flavor characteristics, where no one element overshadows the others.
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   Balance
   Harmony among the wine's components -- fruit, acidity, tannins, alcohol; a well-balanced wine possesses the various elements in proper proportion to one another.
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   Balance
   The state of an insect population in which large deviations from population oscillations do not occur.
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   [Noun] An amount of money that remains or is left over; a steady state where forces are evenly spread.
   Example: He spends too much and is always worried about his bank balance.
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   balance
   [n] - a state of equilibrium 2. [n] - equality of distribution 3. [n] - an amount on the credit side of an account 4. [n] - a scale for weighing 5. [v] - be in equilibrium 6. [v] - bring into balance or equilibrium 7. [v] - compute credits and debits of an account
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   Balance
   1) The relative level of two or more instruments in a mix, or the relative level of audio signals in the channels of a stereo recording.
   2) To make the relative levels of audio signals in the channels of a stereo recording even.
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   Balance
   The component which, in a mechanical timekeeper without a pendulum, controls the speed of the mechanism by its oscillations to and fro.   Since the early 1600s it has invariably consisted of a spoked wheel (for an earlier form see Foliot).   Until the 1670s the balance-wheel performed this task alon
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   Balance
   The amount left to pay on a debt.
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   Balance
   An instrument for measuring the specimen weight.
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    Balance
    The amount available in your account after payment of service charges not including withdrawals or debits, or deposits not credited.
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    Balance
    This word has several meanings in recording. It may refer to the relative levels of the left and right channels of a stereo recording, or it may be used to describe the relative levels of the various instruments and voices within a mix.
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    Balance
    Mechanism to keep sash in position
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    Balance
    A weighing machine. The terms scale and balance are often used interchangeably. Historically a balance was a device that determined mass by balancing an unknown mass against a known mass as with a 2 pan assay balance. In modern weighing machines balances are usually of the design that uses a force restoration mechanism to create a force to balance the force due to the unknown mass.
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    Balance
    The harmonious relationship of the components of wine - acids, fruit, tannins, alcohol, etc. - resulting in a well proportioned, or well balanced, wine.
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    Balance
    When a boat is in perfect balance there is no pull on the tiller
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    Balance
    n. Any piece of apparatus used to determine the mass of a sample of matter.v. as in balance an equation: to have equal numbers of atoms of each element on the opposite sides of an equation.
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    Balance
    Balance: A biological system that enables us to know where our bodies are in the environment and to maintain a desired position. Normal balance depends on information from the inner ear, other senses (such as sight and touch) and muscle movement. Our sense of balance is specifically regulated by a complex interaction between the following parts of ...
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    balance
    amount which is shared each year between all associates of a mutual society as a consequence of the results obtained from the account of a branch Category: Insurance • a network designed to simulate the impedance presented by a line or another network Category: Electrical engineering and energy • state of equilibrium attained by aircraft or spacecraft Category: Transport...
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    Balance
    Placement of colors, light and dark masses, or large and small objects in a picture to create harmony and equilibrium. Description applied to colour films to indicate their ability to produce acceptable colour response in various types of lighting. The films normally available are balanced for daylight (550~6000K photo lamps (3400K) or studio lamps ...
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    A wheel in a clock or watch that regulates the action of the ESCAPEMENT mechanism and thus of the timepiece itself. Its effect was erratic before the invention c.1675 of the balance spring. This uses a spiral hairspring to make the movement of the balance wheel more regular and ISOCHRONUS; it was as significant a development in the field of portabl ...
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    Balance
    Definition (keystage 1) A set of scales is a device for weighing objects.
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    Balance
    Definition (keystage 2) A traditional balance is a device for comparing the weights of two objects; the objects are placed on two pans which are linked into a kind of see-saw; the heavier object will fall, the lighter will rise. If the two things have the same weight, they will balance one another.<br /> If you have a set of weights whose siz ...
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    Balance
    Bal'ance (băl' a ns) noun [ Middle English balaunce , French balance , from Latin bilanx , bilancis , having two scales; bis twice (akin to English two ) + lanx plate, scale.] 1. An apparatus for weighing. » In its simplest form, a balance consists of a beam or lever supported exactly in the middle, having two scales or ba ...
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    Balance
    Bal'ance transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Balanced ; present participle & verbal noun Balancing ] [ From Balance , noun : confer French balancer .] 1. To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance. 2. To support ...
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    Balance
    Bal'ance intransitive verb 1. To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance . 2. To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate. « He would not balance or err in the determination of his choice. Locke. » 3. (Dancing) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.
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