Balance
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Balance or balancing may refer to:
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Equipment
- Balance beam, a piece of gymnastics apparatus.
- Balance board, a piece of training equipment.
- Balancing machine, a machine that balances mechanical rotating parts to lessen vibration.
- Balance wheel, a watch component.
- Battery balancing, matching the State Of Charge in the cells in a battery.
- Tire balance, the distribution of mass within an automobile tire and/or the wheel to which it is attached.
- Weighing scale, also known as a balance, a type of device used to measure the mass of an object.
- The balance used in the Weighing of the Heart in Egyptian mythology.
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Entertainment and media
- Balance (puzzle), a math/physics puzzle in which one tries to balance hanging weights
- Ballance, a 2004 computer puzzle game
- Color balance of levels of red, green, and blue in an image
- Game balance, a concept in game design describing the fairness or balance of power in a game
- Media balance, the presentation of multiple viewpoints
- The balance of stereophonic sound
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Music
- Balance (band), a 1980s pop–rock group
- Balance (Van Halen album)
- Balance (Kim-Lian album)
- Balance (Akrobatik album)
- Balance (Leo Kottke album)
- Balance (Swollen Members album)
- "Balance", a song by Axium from The Story Thus Far
- Balance, EQ Recordings' electronic music CD serie
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Science and medicine
- Balance (ability), an ability to maintain balance (see also: Equilibrioception)
- Balance disorder, the loss of natural balance which can be caused by various medical conditions
- Balance (networking), a popular piece of software for load balancing
- Balanced line in audio and telecommunications
- Load balancing (electrical power), the balance of electricity generation and consumption to minimise loss of unused generated electricity
- The neutral equilibrium point state in structural stability
- Chlordiazepoxide, by the trade name Balance
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Other uses
- Balance (accounting)
- Balance (metaphysics), a desirable point between two or more opposite forces
- Balance (film), a 1989 Academy Award–winning short animated film
- "Balance", a poem by Patti Smith from her book kodak
- Balance (advertisement), a 1989 award-winning television advertisement for the Lexus LS 400
- Balancing (or "hard balancing") in international relations
- In grammar, balancing refers to the use in subordinate clauses of verb forms identical to those in main clauses
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See also
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