Balance or balancing 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 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", an episode of the animated series ''Justice League'' * "Balancing" (''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''), an episode of the eighth season of ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' *"Balancing", an episode of the television series ''Teletubbies''

Music

Performers

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

Government and law

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

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 * Balancing and deranking, in grammar the use in subordinate clauses of verb forms identical to those in main clauses * The Balance, a personal finance website owned by Dotdash *

Balancing (bridge) In the game of contract bridge, balancing (or protection in Britain) refers to making a call other than Pass when passing would result in the opponents playing at a low level. Balancing is done by the player in the ''balancing position'', i.e. to ...

, a term in contract bridge * Balanced, a wine tasting descriptor