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(verb) compute credits and debits of an account |
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Related Words: account, calculate |
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(verb) bring into balance or equilibrium |
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Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrize |
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Related Words: cancel, compensate, complement, counterbalance, countervail, even off, even out, even up, fit, match, offset, set off |
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Antonyms: unbalance |
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(verb) be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot" |
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Related Words: be |
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(noun) a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity |
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Related Words: beam balance, beam scale, electronic balance, microbalance, scale, spring balance, spring scale, steelyard, weighing machine |
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(noun) an amount on the credit side of an account |
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Related Words: balance of trade, carry-forward, carry-over, credit, credit entry, invisible balance, trade balance, trade gap, trial balance, visible balance |
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(noun) equality of distribution |
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Synonyms: counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise |
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Related Words: construction, proportion, structure, symmetry |
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(noun) a state of equilibrium |
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Related Words: electrolyte balance, equilibrium, tension |
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Antonyms: imbalance |
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(verb) hold or carry in equilibrium |
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Synonyms: poise |
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Related Words: bear, carry, hold |
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(noun) 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 |
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Synonyms: proportion |
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Related Words: arrangement, placement |
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(noun) an equivalent counterbalancing weight |
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Synonyms: counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
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Related Words: sash weight, tare, weight |
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(noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane |
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Synonyms: correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry |
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Related Words: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism, bilaterality, geometrical regularity, radial symmetry, regularity, spatial property, spatiality |
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