balace

　　1.a state of equilibrium

　　2.a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity

　　3.equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

　　4.harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design);

　　in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance- John Ruskin

　　5.equality of distribution

　　6.something left after other parts have been taken away;

　　there was no remainder

　　7.the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

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

　　9.an equivalent counterbalancing weight

　　10. 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