balancement

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noun

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; balance.

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Meanings

noun
  1. The act or result of balancing or adjusting; balance.

    The elder Geoffroy and Goethe propounded, at about the same period, their law of compensation or balancement of growth; […]

    1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Laws of Variation”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 147

Origin

From balance + -ment.

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balancement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/balancement

MLA

“balancement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/balancement. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “balancement,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/balancement.

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