(n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
(n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
(n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
(n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
(n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
(n.) The constellation Libra.
(n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
(n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
(n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
(n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
(n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
(n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
(n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
(n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
(n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
(n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
(n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
(v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
(v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
(v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.
Example Sentences:
(1) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(2) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(3) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(4) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(5) Under these conditions, arterial pressure and sodium balance remained stable.
(6) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(7) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(8) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(9) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(10) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(11) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
(12) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(13) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
(14) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
(15) Temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate as well as enzymatic activities (CK, CK-MB, AST, LDH), and characteristics of base-acid-balance (pH, BE, pCO2, Lactate) were taken from 52 pigs during the period shortly before and after they gave birth.
(16) The cells were taken from cultures in low-density balanced exponential growth, and the experiments were performed quickly so that the bacteria were in a uniform physiological state at the time of measurement.
(17) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(18) Blockade of beta-adrenoceptors interferes with haemodynamic and metabolic adaptations and ion balance during dynamic exercise.
(19) The observation of positive side-effects in these cases balances this possibility to some extent.
(20) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
Unequal
Definition:
(a.) Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.
(a.) Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.
(a.) Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.
(a.) Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain.
(a.) Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data were analysed using statistical methods that yield continuous piecewise linear regression equations and allow subjects to have repeated measures which are unequally spaced and at different times for different subjects.
(2) When initial joint angles were unequal, joints moving from smaller initial angles reached their functional limits earlier and stopped first.
(3) A large proportion of allergen escaped rapidly from the ear, about 50% within 3 hr in the case of PCl, within 15 min for DNCB, the difference probably reflecting their unequal reaction constants.
(4) Even in Mondrian-like patterns resembling those used by Land and McCann (1971), equiluminant objects may appear to be of unequal brightness.
(5) Approximately 15% are multilobed but, unlike (-Mg) cells, contain lobes of unequal size with either zero, one, or several nuclei present in each.
(6) We propose that the deletion of the rRNA operon occurred in the ilv-leu gene cluster of the B. subtilis genome as a result of unequal recombination between redundant sequences.
(7) In the pediatric age group, this malformation is notable because of the marked sex predilection in males (70%) and an unequal topographic incidence in the circle of Willis, where carotid artery (39.3%) and anterior communicating artery lesions (30%) predominate.
(8) We deduce that in ubiquitin genes, concerted evolution involves both unequal crossover and gene conversion, and that the average time since two repeated units within the polyubiquitin locus most recently shared a common ancestor is approximately 38 million years (Myr) in mammals, but perhaps only 11 Myr in Drosophila.
(9) "This unfair and unequal treatment means that children with disabilities – already so disadvantaged – suffer further indignities.
(10) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
(11) These results show that there is an unequal expression of the two non-allelic genes controlling insulin biosynthesis in foetal and adult rat pancreas.
(12) Nonheterogeneity of histamine effect can be presumably explained by a strong representation of various types of receptors to which this biogenic amine is bound (H1, H2, H3) in the organs and tissues, their unequal location on the pre- and postsynaptic membrane, the differences in their physiological functions.
(13) The finding indicates that supplier induced demand is a factor to consider in addition to supplier induced utilization when one tries to explain how supplier inducement may affect the unequal distribution of dentists.
(14) Although the role of each form is unknown, it is possible that variable or joining-gene segment selection events or functional differences account for their unequal usage.
(15) For maximum responses less than about 5 mV in cones, the length constant of exponential decay, lambda, varied from less than 10 mum to greater than 35 mum, and the values obtained in opposite directions were often unequal.
(16) Possible explanations for the failure to obtain 100% concordance are methodologic shortcomings, intercell variations in chromosome contraction, and unequal mitotic crossing over.
(17) The reason black people could not get out of New Orleans was not because they were separate but because they were unequal - the wealthier ones left.
(18) Unequal or absent pulses were found in three patients.
(19) In addition, these genes form highly complicated gene families that have evolved through gene conversion and unequal crossing-over.
(20) In Rec+ haploids, as in diploids, intrachromosomal recombination in the ribosomal DNA was detected in 2 to 6% of meiotic divisions, and most events were unequal reciprocal sister chromatid exchange (SCE).