Word Meanings - BALANCER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing. (more info) 1. One who balances, or uses a balance.

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• RUDIMENTARY
  Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• DIPTERAL
  Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
• DIPTERA
  An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo
• BALANCEABLE
  Such as can be balanced.
• BALANCER
  In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing. (more info) 1. One who balances, or uses a balance.
• DIPTERAN
  An insect of the order Diptera.
• 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.
• POSTERIORITY
  The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
• POSTERIORS
  The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.
• 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.
• POSTERIOR
  At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal. (more info) 1. Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. Broome. 2.
• 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.
• PSEUDO-DIPTERAL
  Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column. -- n.
• 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.
• EQUIBALANCE
  Equal weight; equiponderance.
• WEAL-BALANCED
  Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. Shak.
• A POSTERIORI
  Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.