verb
- Bring into balance or equilibrium.
- usage: "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"
- synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise
- Compute credits and debits of an account.
- synonyms: balance
- Hold or carry in equilibrium.
- Be in equilibrium.
- usage: "He was balancing on one foot"
- synonyms: balance
adjective
- Being in a state of proper equilibrium.
- usage: "the carefully balanced seesaw"; "a properly balanced symphony orchestra"; "a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"; "the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers"
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