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▸ noun: (uncountable) Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
▸ noun: (literally or figuratively) Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.
▸ noun: A pair of scales.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).
▸ noun: (accounting) A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.
▸ noun: (accounting) The result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.
▸ noun: (watchmaking) A device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.
▸ noun: (law, business) The remainder.
▸ noun: (obsolete, astrology) Libra.
▸ verb: (transitive) To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) To make (concepts) agree.
▸ verb: (transitive) To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.
▸ verb: (transitive) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
▸ verb: (transitive, dance) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
▸ verb: (nautical) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be in equilibrium.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To have matching credits and debits.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To weigh in a balance.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To hesitate or fluctuate.
Similar:
counterweight,
counterbalance,
counterpoise,
equilibrize,
equilibrate,
equalizer,
equipoise,
poise,
proportion,
correspondence,
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