Balance

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)