What is the meaning of balance?

noun

• A state of equilibrium.
• Equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account.
• 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
  • synonyms: proportion, proportionality
• Equality of distribution.
  • synonyms: equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance
• Something left after other parts have been taken away.
  • usage: "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
  • synonyms: remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest
• The difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account.
• Astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra.
  • synonyms: Libra
• The seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22.
  • synonyms: Libra, Libra the Balance, Libra the Scales
• Mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane.
  • synonyms: symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence
• A weight that balances another weight.
  • synonyms: counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, equalizer, equaliser
• 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.
  • synonyms: balance wheel
• A scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity.

verb

• Bring into balance or equilibrium.
  • usage: "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"
  • synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise
• Compute credits and debits of an account.
• Hold or carry in equilibrium.
  • synonyms: poise
• Be in equilibrium.
  • usage: "He was balancing on one foot"