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'''Balance''' may refer to:
===General terms===
*[[Balance (ability)]], an ability to maintain balance (see [[#See also|Equilibrioception]] below).
*[[Balance (accounting)]]
*[[Balance (metaphysics)]], a desirable point between two or more opposite forces.
*[[Stereophonic sound#Balance|Balance]] of stereophonic sound.
*[[Balance beam]], a piece of gymnastics apparatus.
*[[Balance board]], a piece of training equipment.
*[[Balance disorder]], the medical description of disordered balance.
*[[Weighing scale#Balance|Balance scale]], a device to measure the mass of an object.
*[[Balance wheel]], a watch component.
*[[Engine balance]]
*[[Game balance]], a concept in game design describing the fairness or [[balance of power]] in a game.
*[[Media balance]], the amount of political content in the mass media.
*[[Tire balance]]
===Specific terms===
*''[[Mizan|Balance]]'' (Urdu: ''Mizan'' or ميزان), a comprehensive treatise on Islam written by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, a Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar.
*[[Balance (film)|''Balance'' (film)]], a 1989 Academy Award-winning short animated film.
*[[Balance (networking)|''Balance'' (networking)]], a popular piece of software for load balancing.
*[[Balance (puzzle)|''Balance'' (puzzle)]], a puzzle resembling Sudoku.
*"Balance", a poem by Patti Smith from her book ''[[kodak (book)|kodak]]''.
*[[BALANCE Act]] (H.R. 1066), the Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations Act.
*''[[Balance Bar]]'', a popular nutritional energy bar.
====Music====
*[[Balance (band)]], a 1980s pop/rock group.
*[[Balance (Van Halen album)|''Balance'' (Van Halen album)]]
*[[Balance (Kim-Lian album)|''Balance'' (Kim-Lian album)]]
==Similar terms==
*''[[Ballance]]'', a 2004 computer puzzle game.
*[[Balanced line]] (electronics).
*[[Balancing]] (or "hard balancing") in international relations.
*[[Rebalancing (investment)]], an action to bring investments in line with target asset allocation.
==See also==
*[[Chemical equilibrium]]
*[[Dynamic equilibrium]]
*[[Economic equilibrium]]
*[[Homeostasis]], the biological balance or systemic equilibrium within a living organism.
*[[Mechanical equilibrium]]
*[[Equilibrioception]], the sense of balance or spacial equilibrium in humans and animals.
*[[Stability (disambiguation)]]
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