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Balance may refer to:
General terms
- Balance (ability), an ability to maintain balance (see Equilibrioception below).
- Balance (accounting)
- Balance (metaphysics), a desirable point between two or more opposite forces.
- Balance of stereophonic sound.
- Balance beam, a piece of gymnastics apparatus.
- Balance board, a piece of training equipment.
- Balance disorder, the medical description of disordered balance.
- Balance scale, a device to measure the mass of an object.
- Balance wheel, a watch component.
- Engine balance
- Game balance, a concept in game design describing the fairness or balance of power in a game.
- Media balance, the amount of political content in the mass media.
- Tire balance
Specific terms
- Balance (Urdu: Mizan or ميزان), a comprehensive treatise on Islam written by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, a Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar.
- Balance (film), a 1989 Academy Award-winning short animated film.
- Balance (networking), a popular piece of software for load balancing.
- Balance (puzzle), a puzzle resembling Sudoku.
- "Balance", a poem by Patti Smith from her book kodak.
- BALANCE Act (H.R. 1066), the Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations Act.
- Balance Bar, a popular nutritional energy bar.
Music
- Balance (band), a 1980s pop/rock group.
- Balance (Van Halen album)
- Balance (Kim-Lian album)
Similar terms
- Ballance, a 2004 computer puzzle game.
- Balanced line (electronics).
- Balancing (or "hard balancing") in international relations.
- Rebalancing (investment), an action to bring investments in line with target asset allocation.
See also
- Chemical equilibrium
- Dynamic equilibrium
- Economic equilibrium
- Homeostasis, the biological balance or systemic equilibrium within a living organism.
- Mechanical equilibrium
- Equilibrioception, the sense of balance or spacial equilibrium in humans and animals.
- Stability (disambiguation)
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