Meanings
nounRoberval balance (plural Roberval balances)
plural Roberval balances · alternative Roberval's balance
- A kind of weighing scale with two identical horizontal beams attached, one directly above the other, to a vertical column.
Origin
Presented to the French Academy of Sciences by the French mathematician Gilles Personne de Roberval in 1669.
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Roberval balance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Roberval%20balance
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