balance
英 ['bæl(ə)ns]
美['bæləns]
- n. 平衡；余额；匀称
- vt. 使平衡；结算；使相称
- vi. 保持平衡；相称；抵销
- n. (Balance)人名；(西)巴兰塞
英英释意
- 1. a state of equilibrium
- 2. a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
- 3. equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- 4. harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design);
- "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
- 5. equality of distribution
- 6. something left after other parts have been taken away;
- "there was no remainder"
- "he threw away the rest"
- "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
- 7. the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- 8. (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
- 9. an equivalent counterbalancing weight
- 10. a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat