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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)

BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale)  , a See also:

• TERM

term originally used for the See also:

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

ordinary See also:

• BEAM
• BEAM (from the O. Eng. beam, cf. Ger. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)

beam See also:

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

balance or weighing See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine with two See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

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 See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring balances (see WEIGHING See also:

• MACHINES

MACHINES), apparatus termed " torsion balances," in which forces are measured or compared by their twisting moment on a See also:

• WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire, are used, especially in gravitational, electrostatic and magnetic experiments (see See also:

• GRAVITATION (from Lat. gravis, heavy)

GRAVITATION and See also:

• ELECTROMETER

ELECTROMETER) . The term also connotes the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of equality or equalization; e.g. in the following expressions: " balance," in bookkeeping, the amount which equalizes the debit and See also:

• CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

credit accounts; " balance See also:

• WHEEL (0. Eng. hweol, hweohl, &c., cognate with Icel. hjol, Dan. hiul, the Indo-European root is seen in Sanskrit chakra, Gr. r in Aos, circle, whence " cycle ")
• WHEEL, BREAKING ON THE

wheel," in horology, a See also:

• DEVICE

device for equalizing the relaxing of a See also:

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

watch or See also:

• CLOCK

clock spring (see CLOCK) ; the " balancing of engines," the See also:

• ART

art of minimizing the See also:

• TOTAL

total vibrations of engines when See also:

• RUNNING

running, and consisting generally in the introduction• of masses which 'induce vibrations opposed to the vibrations. of the essential parts of the See also:

• ENGINE
• ENGINE (Lat. ingenium)

engine .