Balance or balancing may refer to:

Common meanings

Balance (ability) Balance in biomechanics, is an ability to maintain the line of gravity (vertical line from centre of mass) of a body within the base of support with minimal postural sway. Sway is the horizontal movement of the centre of gravity even when a per ...

in biomechanics * Balance (accounting) * Balance or

weighing scale A scale or balance is a device used to measure weight or mass. These are also known as mass scales, weight scales, mass balances, and weight balances. The traditional scale consists of two plates or bowls suspended at equal distances from a ...

Balance Balance or balancing may refer to: Common meanings * Balance (ability) in biomechanics * Balance (accounting) * Balance or weighing scale * Balance as in equality or equilibrium Arts and entertainment Film * ''Balance'' (1983 film), a Bulgaria ...

as in equality or equilibrium

Arts and entertainment

Film

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

La Balance LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure ...

'', 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 Sing ...

", 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) 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 Ty Tabor ( ; born September 17, 1961) is the lead guitarist, songwriter, and co-lead vocalist for the progressive metal band, King's X. Tabor has a wide-ranging guitar style, from big guitar riffs to middling melodic passages. His use of volum ...

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

A Question of Balance ''A Question of Balance'' is the sixth album by The Moody Blues, released in 1970. The album was an attempt by the group to strip down their previously lush, psychedelic sound in order to be able to better perform the songs in concert. The alb ...

Other

Balance (game design) Game balance is a branch of game design that is described as a mathematical-algorithmic model of a game’s numbers, game mechanics, and relations between the two. Game balance consists of adjusting values to create a certain user experience. Pla ...

, 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 The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak ) is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorpor ...

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 ...

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

Balancing (international relations) The concept of balancing derives from the balance of power theory, the most influential theory from the realist school of thought, which assumes that a formation of hegemony in a multistate system is unattainable since hegemony is perceived as a t ...

* Balance (apportionment), 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) In metaphysics, balance is a point between two opposite forces that is desirable over purely one state or the other, such as a balance between the metaphysical law and chaos — law by itself being overly controlling, chaos being overly unmana ...

, a desirable point between two or more opposite forces * Balance (stereo), the amount of signal from each channel reproduced in a stereo audio recording *

Balancing and deranking In linguistics, balancing and deranking are terms used to describe the form of verbs used in various types of subordinate clauses and also sometimes in co-ordinate constructions. * A verb form is said to be balanced if it is identical to forms us ...

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

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* Balancing (bridge), a term in contract bridge * Balanced, a wine tasting descriptor