Balance

Balance or balancing may refer to:

Equipment

• Balance beam, a piece of gymnastics apparatus.
• Balance board, a piece of training equipment.
• Balancing machine, a machine that balances mechanical rotating parts to lessen vibration.
• Balance wheel, a watch component.
• Battery balancing, matching the State Of Charge in the cells in a battery.
• Tire balance, the distribution of mass within an automobile tire and/or the wheel to which it is attached.
• Weighing scale, also known as a balance, a type of device used to measure the mass of an object.
• The balance used in the Weighing of the Heart in Egyptian mythology.

Entertainment and media

Game balance, a concept in game design describing fairness or balance of power in a game between multiple players or strategic options.

Music

• Balance (band), a 1980s pop–rock group
• Balance (Van Halen album)
• Balance (Kim-Lian album)
• Balance (Akrobatik album)
• Balance (Leo Kottke album)
• Balance (Swollen Members album)
• "Balance", a song by Axium from The Story Thus Far
• Balance, EQ Recordings' electronic music CD series

Science and medicine

• Equilibrioception, or sense of balance
• Balance (ability) in biomechanics
• Balance in bicycle and motorcycle dynamics
• A balanced reaction in chemistry

Other uses

• Balance (accounting)
• Balance (metaphysics), a desirable point between two or more opposite forces
• Balance (film), a 1989 Academy Award–winning short animated film
• "Balance", a poem by Patti Smith from her book kodak
• Balance (advertisement), a 1989 award-winning television advertisement for the Lexus LS 400
• Balancing (or "hard balancing") in international relations
• In grammar, balancing refers to the use in subordinate clauses of verb forms identical to those in main clauses

See also

• Load balancing (disambiguation)