Balance may refer to:

Common meanings

Balance (accounting) In banking and accounting, the balance is the amount of money owed (or due) on an account. In bookkeeping, “balance” is the difference between the sum of debit entries and the sum of credit entries entered into an account during a financial p ...

* Balance or weighing scale * Balance, as in equality (mathematics) or equilibrium

Arts and entertainment

Film

* ''Balance'' (1983 film), a Bulgarian film * ''Balance'' (1989 film), a short animated film * '' La Balance'', a 1982 French film

Television

* '' Balance: Television for Living Well'', a Canadian television talk show * "The Balance" (Roswell), an episode of the television series ''Roswell'' * "

The Balance ''The Balance'' is the third studio album by Welsh band Catfish and the Bottlemen. It was released on 26 April 2019 through Island Records and Capitol Records. It was preceded by the lead single "Longshot", which reached number 25 on the UK Single ...

", an episode of the animated series ''Justice League''

Music

Performers

Balance (band) Balance was an early 1980s American hard rock band. based out of New York City, United States, and fronted by Peppy Castro, formerly of Blues Magoos. They are best known for their top 40 1981 hit, "Breaking Away". Biography In addition to Castr ...

, a 1980s pop-rock group

Albums

* ''Balance'' (Akrobatik album), 2003 * ''Balance'' (Kim-Lian album), 2004 * ''Balance'' (Leo Kottke album), 1978 * ''Balance'' (Joe Morris album), 2014 * ''Balance'' (Swollen Members album), 1999 * ''Balance'' ( Ty Tabor album), 2008 * ''Balance'' (Van Halen album), 1995 * ''Balance'' (Armin van Buuren album), 2019 * ''

'', a 2019 album by Catfish and the Bottlemen

Songs

* "Balance", a song by Axium from ''

The Story Thus Far ''The Story Thus Far'' is the fourth and final album (third studio album) by the band Axium, with David Cook (lead vocals/guitar/egg shaker), Bobby Kerr (drums/tambourine/vocals), Jeff Shrout (guitar/piano), Neal Tiemann (Midwest Kings Midwest ...

'' * "Balance", a song by Band-Maid from '' Unleash'' * "The Balance", a Moody Blues song on the 1970 album '' A Question of Balance''

Other

* Balance (game design), the concept and the practice of tuning relationships between a game's component systems * ''Balance'' (installation), a 2013 glazed ceramic installation by Tim Ryan *

Balance (puzzle) A balance puzzle is a mathematical puzzle which challenges the solver to distribute a subset of numbers so that the several sides of a stylized diagram representing a balance scale are equal. The balance puzzle is a classical number puzzle in the ...

, a mathematical puzzle * "Balance", a poem by Patti Smith from the book '' kodak''

Government and law

BALANCE Act The Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2003 was a bill that would've amended Title 17 of the United States Code, "to safeguard the rights and expectations of consumers who lawfully obtain di ...

(Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations Act), a proposed US federal legislation *

Balance (apportionment) Balance or balancedness is a property of apportionment methods, which are methods of allocating identical items between among agens, such as dividing seats in a parliament among political parties or federal states. The property says that, if two ...

, a criterion for fair allocation of seats among parties or states

Other uses

* ''Balance'' (advertisement), a 1989 award-winning television advertisement for the Lexus LS 400 * Balance (metaphysics), a desirable point between two or more opposite forces *

Balance (stereo) Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective. This is usually achieved by using two independent audio channels through a configuration ...

, the amount of signal from each channel reproduced in a stereo audio recording * The Balance, a personal finance website owned by Dotdash