Balances Synonyms and Antonyms

Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); - John Ruskin
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. remainders
  2. rests
  3. proportions
  4. insights
  5. perspectives
  6. remnants
  7. residues
  8. discretions
An excess of credits over debits
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. profits
  2. surpluses
A stable, calm state of the emotions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cools
  2. poises
(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. harmonies
  2. excesses
  3. remainders
  4. proportions
  5. rests
  6. stases
  7. stabilities
  8. symmetries
  9. residua
  10. poises
  11. surpluses
  12. estimates
  13. equilibria
  14. residues
  15. compensations
  16. correspondences
Equality of distribution
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. equilibria
  2. counterpoises
  3. offsets
  4. tensions
  5. parities
  6. poises
  7. symmetries
  8. antitheses
  9. stases
  10. equivalences
Antonyms:
  1. imbalances
  2. unbalances
  3. deficiencies
  4. disproportions
  5. instabilities
  6. deficits
  7. asymmetries
To place or be placed on a narrow or insecure surface
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. perches
  2. poises
To act as an equalizing weight or force to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. countervails
  2. counterpoises
  3. counterbalances
  4. counteracts
  5. compensates
  6. offsets
To compare as to relative importance or value
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ponders
  2. evaluates
  3. weighs
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. libras
A weight that balances another weight
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. counterpoises

Words Related to Balances

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Balances Sentence Examples

  • With these powers should come enormous checks and balances on their use.

  • For the above reasons spring balances are nbt in general so accurate as knife-edge machines.

  • In the use of ammeters in which the control is the gravity of a weight, such as the Kelvin ampere balances and other instruments, it should be noted that the scale reading or indication of the instrument will vary with the latitude and with the height of the instrument above the mean sea-level.

  • In ordinary trade balances a triangular piece of hard steel, with a finely-ground edge, is driven through a triangular hole in the beam and jammed tight.

  • Their indications also vary with the temperature, so that for good work it is advisable that spring balances should be frequently checked with standard weights.

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