A pair of scales.
balances
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for balances.
Editorial note
Personally, I think we need technological check and balances as much as we need political checks and balances.
Quick take
A pair of scales.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of balances gathered in one view.
(uncountable) A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
(uncountable) Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for balances.
noun
A pair of scales.
noun
(uncountable) A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
noun
(uncountable) Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
noun
(literally or figuratively) Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.
Example sentences
Personally, I think we need technological check and balances as much as we need political checks and balances.
A color is just the subjective sensation we get because of different balances of stimulation between our short, medium and long wave cones.
The question here is whether these statements about how life balances against resources are self-consistent or not.
Such self-censorship, if it happened widely, would be deleterious to the independent checks and balances our democracy relies on.
Bitcoin mixing services have many people put coins into a pool, then outputs balances to new addresses.
On the other hand they generate power from the flow at several places, so who knows how it all balances out?
When working in teams I think having additional checks and balances and not one 'perfect solution' is vital.
It's free money to us, paid for I assume by the high rates and carried-balances that others have.
And this is why a democracy needs independent checks and balances at every level.
Carbon positive, but the fuel generation is carbon negative, so it balances out.
In most countries wages are more heavily taxed than products, which balances the spending towards buying more things rather than employing more people.
I don't worry - unless there is some specific feedback or criticism shared, it normally balances back out in the end.
Quote examples
Whenever I see a new graph visualization tool, I instantly start dragging the nodes around like a madman to see how well the graph "balances" in the viewport.
So one of the most intriguing Majorana-mechanisms is the so-called "seesaw mechanism": this postulates some symmetry breaking between the left-handed neutrinos of the Standard Model and some new right-handed neutrinos; the left-handed get ratio m/M and the right-handed I think get ratio M/m and it all sort of balances out.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use balances in a sentence?
Personally, I think we need technological check and balances as much as we need political checks and balances.
What does balances mean?
A pair of scales.
What part of speech is balances?
balances is commonly used as noun.