The noun balance has 12 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (28) balance -- (a state of equilibrium)
2. (4) balance -- (a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity)
3. (3) balance -- (equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)
4. (1) proportion, proportionality, balance -- (harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin)
5. balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance -- (equality of distribution)
6. remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest -- (something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance")
7. balance -- (the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)
8. Libra, Balance -- ((astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra)
9. Libra, Libra the Balance, Balance, Libra the Scales -- (the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22)
10. symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence, balance -- ((mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane)
11. counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, balance, equalizer, equaliser -- (a weight that balances another weight)
12. balance wheel, 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)
Overview of verb balance
The verb balance has 4 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (25) balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise -- (bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights")
2. (3) balance -- (compute credits and debits of an account)
3. (2) poise, balance -- (hold or carry in equilibrium)
4. (1) balance -- (be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot")