Balance

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Balance may refer to:

• Analytical balance, a weighing scale.
• Balance (ability), an ability to maintain balance (see also: Equilibrioception).
• Balance (accounting)
• Balancing machine, a machine that balances mechanical rotating parts to lessen vibration
• Media balance, the presentation of multiple viewpoints (See Also Neutrality).
• Balance (metaphysics), a desirable point between two or more opposite forces
• Stereophonic sound#Balance of stereophonic sound
• Balance beam, a piece of gymnastics apparatus
• Balance board, a piece of training equipment
• Weighing scale#Balance, a device to measure the mass of an object
• Balance wheel, a watch component
• Balanced line in audio and telecommunications
• Color balance: Tweaks to the tone of the image, usually by adjusting the various levels of red, green, and blue
• Game balance, a concept in game design describing the fairness or balance of power in a game
• The neutral equilibrium state in stability
• Tire balance

[edit] Specific terms

• Balance (film), a 1989 Academy Award–winning short animated film
• Balance (networking), a popular piece of software for load balancing
• Balance (puzzle), a math/physics puzzle in which one tries to balance hanging weights
• "Balance", a poem by Patti Smith from her book kodak

• Balance (Lexus)

[edit] 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

[edit] Similar terms

• Ballance, a 2004 computer puzzle game.
• Balancing (or "hard balancing") in international relations.
• Balancing machine
• In grammar, balancing refers to the use in subordinate clauses of verb forms identical to those in main clauses. See balancing and deranking

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