Balence vs. Balance: What's the Difference?

Balence is an incorrect spelling of Balance.

Balance can mean a harmonious arrangement or proportion.

Balance signifies the difference in magnitude between opposing forces or influences.

See Libra.

A weighing device, especially one consisting of a rigid beam horizontally suspended by a low-friction support at its center, with identical weighing pans hung at either end, one of which holds an unknown weight while the effective weight in the other is increased by known amounts until the beam is level and motionless. Also called scale.

A state of equilibrium or parity characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces.

The power or means to decide

A state of bodily equilibrium

The ability to maintain bodily equilibrium

A harmonious or satisfying arrangement or proportion of parts or elements, as in a design.

An influence or force tending to produce equilibrium; counterpoise.

The difference in magnitude between opposing forces or influences.

Equality of totals in the debit and credit sides of an account.

The difference between such totals, either on the credit or the debit side.

Something that is left over; a remainder.

(Chemistry) Equality of mass and net electric charge of reacting species on each side of an equation.

(Mathematics) Equality with respect to the net number of reduced symbolic quantities on each side of an equation.

A balance wheel.

To determine the weight of (something) in a weighing device.

To consider and compare or assess

To bring into or maintain in a state of equilibrium.

To act as an equalizing weight or force to; counterbalance.

To compute the difference between the debits and credits of (an account).

To reconcile or equalize the sums of the debits and credits of (an account).

To settle (an account, for example) by paying what is owed.

To bring into or keep in equal or satisfying proportion or harmony.

Mathematics & Chemistry To bring (an equation) into balance.

To move toward and then away from (a dance partner).

To be in or come into equilibrium.

To be equal or equivalent.

To sway or waver as if losing or regaining equilibrium.

To move toward and then away from a dance partner.

(uncountable) A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.

(uncountable) Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.

Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.

A pair of scales.

(uncountable) Awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.

(uncountable) The overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others.

(uncountable) Apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).

(accounting) A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.

(accounting) The result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.

(watchmaking) A device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.

The remainder.

Libra.

(transitive) To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.

To make (concepts) agree.

(transitive) To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.

(transitive) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.

To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.

(nautical) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.

(transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.

(intransitive) To be in equilibrium.

(intransitive) To have matching credits and debits.

To weigh in a balance.

To hesitate or fluctuate.

An apparatus for weighing.

Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.

Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.

An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; - also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.

A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).

The constellation Libra.

To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.

To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.

To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.

To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.

To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.

To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; - said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.

To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.

To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.

To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.

To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.

To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.

To move toward a person or couple, and then back.

A state of equilibrium

A scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity

Equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design);

Equality of distribution

Something left after other parts have been taken away;

The difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun in in Libra

The seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22

(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane

An equivalent counterbalancing weight

A wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat

Bring into balance or equilibrium;

Compute credits and debits of an account

Hold or carry in equilibrium

Be in equilibrium;

Balance refers to the stability produced by even distribution of weight.

In accounting, balance denotes the amount of money held in an account.

It also means to offset or compare the value of one thing with another.