Balance
Appearance
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:
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