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actinic balanceBolometer Bo*lom"e*ter, n. [Gr. ? a stroke, ray + -meter.]
(Physics)
An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant
heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; --
called also actinic balance, thermic balance. --S. P.
Langley. Axis of a balanceAxis Ax"is, n.; pl. Axes. [L. axis axis, axle. See Axle.]
A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body,
on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line
passing through a body or system around which the parts are
symmetrically arranged.
2. (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the
different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged;
as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone,
that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the
center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight
line passing through the center.
3. (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal
support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the
central line of any body. --Gray.
4. (Anat.)
(a) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra
dentata.
(b) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is
prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first
vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process
or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head
to turn upon.
5. (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in
describing the position of the planes by which a crystal
is bounded.
6. (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any
design.
Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the
strata slope downward on the two opposite sides.
Synclinal axis, a line from which the strata slope upward
in opposite directions, so as to form a valley.
Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central
substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also axis band,
axial fiber, and cylinder axis.
Axis in peritrochio, the wheel and axle, one of the
mechanical powers.
Axis of a curve (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a
system of parallel chords of a curve; called a principal
axis, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it
divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the
parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has
two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two
axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the minor
axis, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the
transverse axis and the conjugate axis.
Axis of a lens, the straight line passing through its
center and perpendicular to its surfaces.
Axis of a telescope or microscope, the straight line with
which coincide the axes of the several lenses which
compose it.
Axes of co["o]rdinates in a plane, two straight lines
intersecting each other, to which points are referred for
the purpose of determining their relative position: they
are either rectangular or oblique.
Axes of co["o]rdinates in space, the three straight lines
in which the co["o]rdinate planes intersect each other.
Axis of a balance, that line about which it turns.
Axis of oscillation, of a pendulum, a right line passing
through the center about which it vibrates, and
perpendicular to the plane of vibration.
Axis of polarization, the central line around which the
prismatic rings or curves are arranged. --Brewster.
Axis of revolution (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line
about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the
several points of the line or plane shall describe circles
with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes
perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of
revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution.
Axis of symmetry (Geom.), any line in a plane figure which
divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when
folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other
part.
Axis of the equator, ecliptic, horizon (or other circle
considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies),
the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the
plane of the circle. --Hutton.
Axis of the Ionic capital (Arch.), a line passing
perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the
volute.
Neutral axis (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the
horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression,
exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder.
Optic axis of a crystal, the direction in which a ray of
transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All
crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial
or biaxial.
Optic axis, Visual axis (Opt.), the straight line passing
through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the
surface of the eye.
Radical axis of two circles (Geom.), the straight line
perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such
that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles
shall be equal to each other.
Spiral axis (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn
spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without.
Axis of abscissas and Axis of ordinates. See Abscissa. Balance
Balance Bal"ance, v. i.
1. To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as,
the scales balance.
2. To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force;
to waver; to hesitate.
He would not balance or err in the determination of
his choice. --Locke.
3. (Dancing) To move toward a person or couple, and then
back.
balanceBalance wheel Bal"ance wheel`
1. (Horology)
(a) A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch
or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock;
-- often called simply a balance.
(b) A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is
acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in
those watches called a balance).
2. (Mach.) A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements
of any engine or machine; a fly wheel. Balance dockDock Dock, n. [Akin to D. dok; of uncertain origin; cf. LL.
doga ditch, L. doga ditch, L. doga sort of vessel, Gr. ?
receptacle, fr. ? to receive.]
1. An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a
harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and
provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the
tide.
2. The slip or water way extending between two piers or
projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; --
sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down
on the dock.
3. The place in court where a criminal or accused person
stands.
Balance dock, a kind of floating dock which is kept level
by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the
compartments of side chambers.
Dry dock, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped
out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls
and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep
water, but having appliances for excluding it; -- used in
constructing or repairing ships. The name includes
structures used for the examination, repairing, or
building of vessels, as graving docks, floating docks,
hydraulic docks, etc.
Floating dock, a dock which is made to become buoyant, and,
by floating, to lift a vessel out of water.
Graving dock, a dock for holding a ship for graving or
cleaning the bottom, etc.
Hydraulic dock, a dock in which a vessel is raised clear of
the water by hydraulic presses.
Naval dock, a dock connected with which are naval stores,
materials, and all conveniences for the construction and
repair of ships.
Sectional dock, a form of floating dock made in separate
sections or caissons.
Slip dock, a dock having a sloping floor that extends from
deep water to above high-water mark, and upon which is a
railway on which runs a cradle carrying the ship.
Wet dock, a dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a
given level, to facilitate the loading and unloading of
ships; -- also sometimes used as a place of safety; a
basin. balance fishHammerhead Ham"mer*head`, n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zyg[ae]na,
having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the
head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna
zyg[ae]na is found in the North Atlantic. Called also
hammer fish, and balance fish. Balance rudderRudder Rud"der, n. [OE. rother, AS. r[=o][eth]er a paddle;
akin to D. roer rudder, oar, G. ruder, OHG. roadar, Sw.
roder, ror, Dan. roer, ror. [root] 8. See Row to propel
with an oar, and cf. Rother. ]
1. (Naut.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a
vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad
and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank,
and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one
edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it
can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a
tiller, wheel, or other attachment.
2. Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or
governor; that which guides or governs the course.
For rhyme the rudder is of verses. --Hudibras.
Balance rudder (Naut.), a rudder pivoted near the middle
instead of at the edge, -- common on sharpies.
Drop rudder (Naut.), a rudder extending below the keel so
as to be more effective in steering.
Rudder chain (Naut.), one of the loose chains or ropes
which fasten the rudder to the quarters to prevent its
loss in case it gets unshipped, and for operating it in
case the tiller or the wheel is broken.
Rudder coat (Naut.), a covering of tarred canvas used to
prevent water from entering the rudderhole.
Rudder fish. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The pilot fish.
(b) The amber fish (Seriola zonata), which is bluish
having six broad black bands.
(c) A plain greenish black American fish (Leirus
perciformis); -- called also black rudder fish,
logfish, and barrel fish. The name is also applied
to other fishes which follow vessels.
Rudder pendants (Naut.), ropes connected with the rudder
chains. Balance wheelBalance wheel Bal"ance wheel`
1. (Horology)
(a) A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch
or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock;
-- often called simply a balance.
(b) A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is
acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in
those watches called a balance).
2. (Mach.) A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements
of any engine or machine; a fly wheel. Balanceable
Balanceable Bal"ance*a*ble, a.
Such as can be balanced.
Balancement
Balancement Bal"ance*ment, n.
The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even
adjustment of forces. [R.] --Darwin.
Balancer
Balancer Bal"an*cer, n.
1. One who balances, or uses a balance.
2. (Zo["o]l.) In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.
Balancereef
Balancereef Bal"ance*reef`, n. (Naut.)
The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the
ship.
balancing coilAutotransformer Au`to*trans*form"er, n. [Auto- + transformer.]
(Elec.)
A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as
a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a
compensator or balancing coil. Balaniferous
Balaniferous Bal`a*nif"er*ous, a. [L. balanus acorn +
-ferous.]
Bearing or producing acorns.
Balanite
Balanite Bal"a*nite, n. [L. balanus acorn: cf. F. balanite.]
(Paleon.)
A fossil balanoid shell.
Balanites AEgyptiacaZachun a*chun", n. (Bot.)
An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny
tree (Balanites [AE]gyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a
healing ointment. --J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). Balanites AEgyptiacaBito Bi"to, n., Bito tree Bi"to tree` . [Etym. uncertain.]
(Bot.)
A small scrubby tree (Balanites [AE]gyptiaca) growing in
dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia.
Note: The hard yellowish white wood is made into plows in
Abyssinia; the bark is used in Farther India to stupefy
fish; the ripe fruit is edible, when green it is an
anthelmintic; the fermented juice is used as a
beverage; the seeds yield a medicinal oil called
zachun. The African name of the tree is hajilij. BalanoglossusBalanoglossus Bal`a*no*glos"sus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? acorn + ?
tongue.] (Zo["o]l)
A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria. BalanoidBalanoid Bal"a*noid, a. [Gr. ? acorn + -oid.] (Zo["o]l.)
Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles
having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and
Barnacle. BalanusSea acorn Sea" a"corn (Zo["o]l.)
An acorn barnacle (Balanus). Chrysobalanus IcacoNectarine Nec"tar*ine, n. [Cf. F. nectarine. See Nectar.]
(Bot.)
A smooth-skinned variety of peach.
Spanish nectarine, the plumlike fruit of the West Indian
tree Chrysobalanus Icaco; -- also called cocoa plum.
it is made into a sweet conserve which a largely exported
from Cuba. Coin balanceCoin Coin (koin), n. [F. coin, formerly also coing, wedge,
stamp, corner, fr. L. cuneus wedge; prob. akin to E. cone,
hone. See Hone, n., and cf. Coigne, Quoin,
Cuneiform.]
1. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See
Coigne, and Quoin.
2. A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped
by government authority, making it legally current as
money; -- much used in a collective sense.
It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the
current coin of the realm. --Hallam.
3. That which serves for payment or recompense.
The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is
repaid in a nobler coin. --Hammond.
Coin balance. See Illust. of Balance.
To pay one in his own coin, to return to one the same kind
of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him.
[Colloq.] Compensated balanceCompensation Com`pen*sa"tion, n. [L. compensatio a weighing, a
balancing of accounts.]
1. The act or principle of compensating. --Emerson.
2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent;
that which makes good the lack or variation of something
else; that which compensates for loss or privation;
amends; remuneration; recompense.
The parliament which dissolved the monastic
foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward
securing the slightest compensation to the
dispossessed owners. --Hallam.
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
--Burke.
3. (Law)
(a) The extinction of debts of which two persons are
reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are
reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a
credit of equal amount; a set-off. --Bouvier.
--Wharton.
(b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
(c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale
of real estate, in which it is customary to provide
that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but
shall be the subject of compensation.
Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, a kind of
balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of
two different metals having different expansibility under
changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each
other and preserve uniformity of movement.
Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.
Syn: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration;
requital; satisfaction; set-off. Compensation balanceCompensation Com`pen*sa"tion, n. [L. compensatio a weighing, a
balancing of accounts.]
1. The act or principle of compensating. --Emerson.
2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent;
that which makes good the lack or variation of something
else; that which compensates for loss or privation;
amends; remuneration; recompense.
The parliament which dissolved the monastic
foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward
securing the slightest compensation to the
dispossessed owners. --Hallam.
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
--Burke.
3. (Law)
(a) The extinction of debts of which two persons are
reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are
reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a
credit of equal amount; a set-off. --Bouvier.
--Wharton.
(b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
(c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale
of real estate, in which it is customary to provide
that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but
shall be the subject of compensation.
Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, a kind of
balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of
two different metals having different expansibility under
changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each
other and preserve uniformity of movement.
Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.
Syn: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration;
requital; satisfaction; set-off. CounterbalanceCounterbalance Coun`ter*bal"ance (-b?l"ans), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Counterbalanced (-anst); p. pr. & vb. n.
Counterbalancing.]
To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the
power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to
balance.
The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the
mercurial cylinder. --Boyle.
The cstudy of mind is necessary to counterbalance and
correct the influence of the study of nature. --Sir W.
Hamilton. Counterbalance
Counterbalance Coun"ter*bal`ance (koun"t?r-b?l`ans), n.
A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing
another; as:
(a) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly
wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the
opposite side of the wheel.
(b) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a
drawbridge or a scale beam.
Money is the counterbalance to all other things
purchasable by it. --Locke.
CounterbalancedCounterbalance Coun`ter*bal"ance (-b?l"ans), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Counterbalanced (-anst); p. pr. & vb. n.
Counterbalancing.]
To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the
power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to
balance.
The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the
mercurial cylinder. --Boyle.
The cstudy of mind is necessary to counterbalance and
correct the influence of the study of nature. --Sir W.
Hamilton. CounterbalancingCounterbalance Coun`ter*bal"ance (-b?l"ans), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Counterbalanced (-anst); p. pr. & vb. n.
Counterbalancing.]
To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the
power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to
balance.
The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the
mercurial cylinder. --Boyle.
The cstudy of mind is necessary to counterbalance and
correct the influence of the study of nature. --Sir W.
Hamilton. DryobalanopsDryobalanops Dry`o*bal"a*nops, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? oak + ?
acorn + ? appearance. The fruit remotely resembles an acorn
in its cup.] (Bot.)
The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora,
a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo
camphor and camphor oil. Dryobalanops camphoraBorneol Bor"ne*ol, n. [Borneo + -ol.] (Chem.)
A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary
camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is
said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra
(Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely
found in European or American commerce, being in great
request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay
camphor, and camphol.
Meaning of BALAN from wikipedia
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balan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Balan may
refer to:
Bălan, a town in
Harghita County,
Romania Bălan, Sălaj, a
commune in Sălaj County...
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Vidya Balan (pronounced [ʋɪd̪ːja
baːlən]; born 1
January 1979) is an
Indian actress.
Known for
pioneering a
change in the
portrayal of
women in Hindi...
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Bălan (German: Kupferbergwerk; Hungarian: Balánbánya,
pronounced [ˈbɒlaːmbaːɲɒ] ) is a town in
Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. It has historically...
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Indian actress Vidya Balan made her
acting debut in 1995 with the
sitcom Hum Paanch,
following which she made
several unsuccessful attempts at a film...
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Bălan is a
Romanian surname,
Balan a Bulgarian,
Indian and
Italian one.
Notable people with
these surnames include:
Aleksandar Teodorov-
Balan (1859–1959)...
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Bălan (born 6
February 1979) is a
Moldovan musician, singer, songwriter, and
record producer. He is the
founder of
Moldovan eurodance band O-Zone...
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Aditi Balan is an
Indian actress who
mainly works in
Tamil and
Malayalam films.
Aditi is best
known for
playing the
titular role in the film Aruvi. Her...
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Bhulaiyaa (2007) and
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (2022). It
stars Kartik Aaryan,
Vidya Balan,
Madhuri Dixit and
Triptii Dimri, and is set in Kolkata, West Bengal. The...
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Punit Balan is an
Indian film
producer and
owner of
several sporting teams. He owns Pune
Jaguars (tennis),
Mumbai Khiladis (kho kho) and
Maharashtra Ironmen...
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produced by T-Series and
Abundantia Entertainment. The film
stars Vidya Balan and
Shefali Shah. It
premiered on
Amazon Prime Video on 18
March 2022. It...
