Balance

To bring into or keep in equal or satisfying proportion or harmony.
1. a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
18. to bring to or hold in equilibrium; poise: to balance a book on one's head.
To bring into or maintain in a state of equilibrium.
To act as an equalizing weight or force to; counterbalance.
20. to be equal or proportionate to: One side of an equation must balance the other.
v. intr.
To be in or come into equilibrium.
To be equal or equivalent.
To sway or waver as if losing or regaining equilibrium.


mental and emotional steadiness
3. mental steadiness or emotional stability; habit of calm behavior, judgment, etc.
A stable mental or psychological state; emotional stability.
23. to estimate the relative weight or importance of; compare: to balance all the probabilities of a situation.
2. Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
4. The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
7. the power or ability to decide an outcome by throwing one's strength, influence, support, or the like, to one side or the other.
The power or means to decide.
To compare by or as if by turning over in the mind: balanced the pros and cons before making a choice.
24. to serve as a counterpoise to; counterbalance; offset: The advantages more than balance the disadvantages.
28. to waver or hesitate:
—Idioms
31. on balance, considering all aspects


–verb (used without object)
A state of bodily equilibrium.
27. to reckon or adjust
A state of bodily equilibrium: thrown off balance by a gust of wind.
The ability to maintain bodily equilibrium: Gymnasts must have good balance.
25. Dance. to move in rhythm to and from: to balance one's partner.
To move toward and then away from (a dance partner).



A harmonious or satisfying arrangement or proportion of parts or elements, as in a design.
8. (in winemaking) the degree to which all the attributes of a wine are in harmony, with none either too prominent or deficient.
13. Fine Arts. composition or placement of elements of design, as figures, forms, or colors, in such a manner as to produce an aesthetically pleasing or harmoniously integrated whole.
19. to arrange, adjust, or proportion the parts of symmetrically.



A state of equilibrium or parity characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces.
The difference in magnitude between opposing forces or influences, such as for bodily parts or organs.
An influence or force tending to produce equilibrium; counterpoise.
Chemistry To bring (an equation) into balance.
Chemistry Equality of mass and net electric charge of reacting species on each side of an equation.
Equality of mass and net electric charge of reacting species on each side of a chemical equation.
To adjust a chemical equation so that the number of each type of atom and the total charge on the reactant (left-hand) side of the equation matches the number and charge on the product (right-hand) side of the equation.
Mathematics To bring (an equation) into balance.
Mathematics Equality with respect to the net number of reduced symbolic quantities on each side of an equation.
Equality of totals in the debit and credit sides of an account.
The difference between such totals, either on the credit or the debit side.



Synonyms:
poise
composure.
symmetry
equilibrium
poise
proportionality
bal⋅an⋅cé  [bal-uhn-sey; Fr. ba-lahn-sey]
v. bal·anced, bal·anc·ing, bal·anc·es


[Middle English balaunce, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *bilancia, having two scale pans, from Latin bilānx : bi-, two; see dwo- in Indo-European roots + lānx, scale.]
bal'ance·a·ble adj.