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1. What does BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
This has sixteen meanings (12 senses as a noun, 4 senses as a verb). Usually, it signifies a state of equilibrium

2. What does BALANCE BEAM mean?
pronunciation
It's a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts

3. What does BEAM BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
It's a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm

4. What does BALANCE SHEET mean?
pronunciation
It's a record of the financial situation of an institution on a particular date by listing its assets and the claims against those assets

5. What does BALANCE WHEEL mean?
pronunciation
It's 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

6. What does TRADE BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
The difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise

7. What does TRIAL BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
It's a balance of debits and credits in double-entry bookkeeping; drawn up to test their equality

8. What does MENTAL BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
The healthy psychological state of someone with good judgment

9. What does SPRING BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
It's a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring

10. What does DYNAMIC BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
(aeronautics) the state of equilibrium in which centrifugal forces due to a rotating mass (e.g., a propeller) do not produce force in the shaft and so vibration is reduced

11. What does TORSION BALANCE mean?
definition
Measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire

12. What does VISIBLE BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
The difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise

13. What does BALANCE OF POWER mean?
pronunciation
It's an equilibrium of power between nations

14. What does BALANCE OF TRADE mean?
pronunciation
The difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise

15. What does CHEMICAL BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
It's a beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis

16. What does NITROGEN BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
The balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted)

17. What does SENSE OF BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
It's a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head

18. What does ACID-BASE BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
(physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body

19. What does INVISIBLE BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
The difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of services and payments of property incomes

20. What does LIBRA THE BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
The seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22

21. What does ANALYTICAL BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
It's a beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis

22. What does ELECTRONIC BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
Balance that generates a current proportional to displacement of pan

23. What does OFFSETTING BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
It's a minimum credit balance that a bank may require a borrower to keep on deposit as a condition for granting a loan; a common requirement for establishing a line of credit at a bank

24. What does BALANCE OF PAYMENTS mean?
pronunciation
It's a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year

25. What does ELECTROLYTE BALANCE mean?
definition
It's an equilibrium between the amounts of electrolytes (as calcium and sodium and potassium) that is essential for normal health and functioning

26. What does COMPENSATING BALANCE mean?
pronunciation
It's a minimum credit balance that a bank may require a borrower to keep on deposit as a condition for granting a loan; a common requirement for establishing a line of credit at a bank

27. What does BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PROBLEM mean?
pronunciation
It's an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports

28. What does BALANCE OF INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS mean?
pronunciation
It's a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year


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