Word Meanings - BALANCEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.

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• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• RESULTIVE
  Resultant. Fuller.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• DARWINIAN
  Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
  A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• BALANCEABLE
  Such as can be balanced.
• ADJUSTAGE
  Adjustment.
• BALANCER
  In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing. (more info) 1. One who balances, or uses a balance.
• BALANCE
  A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). The constellation Libra. The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. 8. A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i.,
• BALANCEREEF
  The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
• RESULTANCE
  The act of resulting; that which results; a result. Donne.
• ADJUSTMENT
  Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham. 3. The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into
• RESULTLESS
  Being without result; as, resultless investigations.
• EQUIPOISE
  1. Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. The means
• ADJUST
  to fit; fr. L. ad + juxta near; confused later with L. ad and justus just, right, whence F. ajuster to adjust. See Just, v. t. and cf. 1. To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust
• RESULTANT
  Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence. Resultant force or motion , a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more
• ADJUSTABLE
  Capable of being adjusted.
• RESULT
  1. To leap back; to rebound. The huge round stone, resulting with a bound. Pope. 2. To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil. 3. To proceed, spring, or
• BALANCE WHEEL
  A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel. (more info) A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• READJUST
  To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
• PREADJUSTMENT
  Previous adjustment.
• COUNTERBALANCE
  To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary
• OVERBALANCE
  1. To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke. 2. To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
• OUTBALANCE
  To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect. Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night. Dryden.
• READJUSTER
  One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State's creditors.
• UNBALANCED
  Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books. 3. Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind.
• SELF-ADJUSTING
  Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts, under varying circumstances, without requiring to be adjusted by hand; -- said of a piece in machinery. Self-adjusting bearing , a bearing which is supported in such
• EQUIBALANCE
  Equal weight; equiponderance.
• NEO-DARWINISM
  The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example
• WEAL-BALANCED
  Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. Shak.
• PRESULTOR
  A leader in the dance.