(law) A legal standard, applied in many jurisdictions for deciding the outcome of civil disputes, which requires that a dispute be decided in favor of the party whose claims are more likely to be true.

(accounting) A statement of the balances of all nominal accounts in a double-entry ledger, made to test their equality. The total value of the debits should equal the total of the credits any difference indicates that an error has been made.

plural of trial balance

plural of balancing

The state or quality of being balanced.

¹ A diet consisting of suitable proportions of foods from all food groups. / ² A diet consisting of all necessary seven nutrients in their correct proportions.

(mathematics, probability theory) a Markov process is said to show detailed balance if the transition rates between each pair of states i and j in the state space obey

(rare) Acorn-eating.

Alternative form of balanephagous

Overall, when all factors are taken into account; one way and another.