Balance

Balance, balanced or balancing may refer to:

Most common meanings

• Balance (ability) in biomechanics
• Balance (accounting)
• Balance (device for weighing) or weighing scale
• Equilibrioception, the physiological sense of balance
• Justice, theory of fairness
• Homeostasis, maintaining stable state

Arts and entertainment

Card games

• in contract bridge:
  • Balanced hand
  • Balancing (bridge)

Films

• Balance (1983 film), a Bulgarian film
• Balance (1989 film), a short animated film
• La Balance, a 1982 French film

Music

• Balance (band), a 1980s pop-rock group
• Balance (Van Halen album), 1995
• Balance (Kim-Lian album), 2004
• Balance (Akrobatik album), 2003
• Balance (Leo Kottke album), 1978
• Balance (Swollen Members album), 1999
• Balance (Ty Tabor album), 2008
• Balance (Joe Morris album), 2014
• "The Balance", a Moody Blues song on the 1970 album A Question of Balance
• "Balance", a song by Axium from The Story Thus Far

Other

• Balance (game design), the concept and the practice of tuning relationships between a game's component systems
• "Balance", a poem by Patti Smith from the book kodak
• "Balancing", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
• Balance: Television for Living Well, a Canadian television talk show

Other uses

• Balance (metaphysics), a desirable point between two or more opposite forces
• Balance (puzzle), a mathematical puzzle
• Balance (advertisement), a 1989 award-winning television advertisement for the Lexus LS 400
• Balanced, one of the wine tasting descriptors
• Balancing (international relations)
• Balancing and deranking, in grammar the use in subordinate clauses of verb forms identical to those in main clauses
• Load balancing (computing), computer networking method for distributing workloads across multiple computing resources
• Tire balance, the distribution of mass within an automobile tire or the entire wheel to which it is attached

See also

• BALANCE Act (Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations Act), proposed US federal legislation
• Balance wheel, the timing device in mechanical watches
• Balancing machine, a measuring tool used for balancing rotating machine parts