balance
noun
[ ˈbal(ə)ns ]
• an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady.
• "she lost her balance and fell"
• a situation in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions.
• "the obligations of political balance in broadcasting"
Similar:
fairness,
justice,
impartiality,
egalitarianism,
equal opportunity,
parity,
equity,
equilibrium,
evenness,
symmetry,
equipoise,
correspondence,
uniformity,
equality,
equivalence,
similarity,
levelness,
parallelism,
comparability,
• an apparatus for weighing, especially one with a central pivot, beam, and two scales.
• a counteracting weight or force.
• a predominating amount; a preponderance.
• "the balance of opinion was that work was more important than leisure"
• a figure representing the difference between credits and debits in an account; the amount of money held in an account.
• "he accumulated a healthy balance with the savings bank"
balance
verb
• put (something) in a steady position so that it does not fall.
• "a mug that she balanced on her knee"
• offset or compare the value of (one thing) with another.
• "the cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits"
• compare debits and credits in (an account) so as to ensure that they are equal.
• "the law requires the council to balance its books each year"
Origin:
Middle English (in balance (sense 3 of the noun)): from Old French balance (noun), balancer (verb), based on late Latin (libra) bilanx ‘(balance) having two scale pans’, from bi- ‘twice, having two’ + lanx ‘scale pan’.
on balance
• when all factors are taken into consideration.
• "on balance, he was pleased with how things had gone"
Similar:
overall,
all in all,
all things considered,
by and large,
on average,
for the most part,
mostly,
mainly,
in the main,
on the whole,
in general,
generally,
generally speaking,
largely,
to a large extent,
to a great degree,
