Scrabble & Words with friends points
- balance is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 11
- balance is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 11
- balance is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 15
Definition of balance
- 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 (noun)
Synonyms
- balance wheel
- (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane (noun)
Synonyms
- correspondence
- symmetricalness
- symmetry
- the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22 (noun)
Synonyms
- libra
- libra the balance
- libra the scales
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) (noun)
Examples
- in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance
Synonyms
- proportion
- proportionality
- a weight that balances another weight (noun)
Synonyms
- counterbalance
- counterpoise
- counterweight
- equaliser
- equalizer
- equality of distribution (noun)
Synonyms
- counterbalance
- equilibrium
- equipoise
- something left after other parts have been taken away (noun)
Examples
- he took what he wanted and I got the balance
Synonyms
- remainder
- residual
- residue
- residuum
- rest
- (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra (noun)
Synonyms
- libra
- hold or carry in equilibrium (verb)
Synonyms
- poise
- bring into balance or equilibrium (verb)
Examples
- She has to balance work and her domestic duties
- balance the two weights
Synonyms
- equilibrate
- equilibrise
- equilibrize
- a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity (noun)
- a state of equilibrium (noun)
- be in equilibrium (verb)
- compute credits and debits of an account (verb)
- equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account (noun)
- the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account (noun)
See definition of balance in Merriam Webster