Balance vs Balance Wheel - What's the Difference?
Definition as Noun
- a state of equilibrium
- equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
- 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
- a weight that balances another weight
- equality of distribution
- (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra
- the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
Definition as Noun
- 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
Definition as Verb
- compute credits and debits of an account
- be in equilibrium
- bring into balance or equilibrium
- hold or carry in equilibrium
Examples
- "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
- "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
- "He was balancing on one foot"
- "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"