(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.

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

plural of balance wheel

The timekeeping device normally used in mechanical watches and small clocks, consisting of a wheel which oscillates due to a coiled spring.

(politics, government) A situation of equilibrium in which no country is powerful enough to control, or threaten the interests of, the others.

(politics, government) balance of power

(US politics) To pick a vice-presidential candidate who represents a different constituency than the presidential candidate.

(category theory) A category in which every bimorphism is an isomorphism.