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BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 235 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale) , a

term

TERM

originally used for the

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

beam

balance

BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

or weighing

machine

with two scale pans, but extended to include (with or without adjectival qualification) other apparatus for measuring and comparing weights and forces. In addition to beam and

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

balances (see WEIGHING MACHINES), apparatus termed " torsion balances," in which forces are measured or compared by their twisting moment on a wire, are used, especially in gravitational, electrostatic and magnetic experiments (see GRAVITATION and ELECTROMETER). The

term

TERM

also connotes the idea of equality or equalization; e.g. in the following expressions: "

balance

BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

," in bookkeeping, the amount which equalizes the debit and credit accounts; " balance wheel,"
in horology, a device for equalizing the relaxing of a

watch

WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

clock

CLOCK

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

(see

CLOCK

CLOCK

) ; the " balancing of engines," the art of minimizing the

total

TOTAL

vibrations of engines when running, and consisting generally in the introduction of masses which 'induce vibrations opposed to the vibrations. of the essential parts of the

engine

ENGINE
ENGINE (Lat. ingenium)

.

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