balance dynamometer (balansdinamometer)

A form of dynamometer in which the principle of the steelyard is used to estimate the number of foot-pounds of power. The apparatus is attached between two pulleys, of which one receives and the other transmits the motive force, and is operated by means of loose pulleys, upon which the belts are shifted when it is desired to test the power. Also called bevel - gear transmitting dynamometer. See cut under dynamometer. 6. To bring into a state of equality; make balance-electrometer (bal'ans-e-lek-trom'e equal; offset (one thing with another). To balance fortune by a just expense, Join with economy, magnificence; With splendour, charity; with plenty, health. Pope, Moral E ays, iii. 223. Like souls that balance joy and pain. Wearine was balanced with delight. Tennyson, Lance lot and Guinevere. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 246. 7. To use as a counterpoise or set-off. Is it a rule of oratory to balance the style against the subject, and to handle the most sublime truths in the dullest language and the driest manner? Sydney Smith , in Lady Holland, iii. The... wisdom which balanced Egypt against As syria. Pusey , Minor Prophets, p. 47. 8. To sway up and down, like the arms of a balance. IMG:content-1576.png:[blocks in formation] 10. To examine or compare by summations, etc., so as to show how a ets and liabilities or debits and credits stand: as, let us balance our accounts.-11. Naut., to steady (a ship in bad weather) by reefing with a balance-reef. Balanced copula. See copula. To balance books, to close or adjust each personal or general account in a ledger. II. in trans. 1. To have an equality or equivalence in weight, parts, etc.; be in a state of equipoise; be evenly adjusted: as, the two things exactly balance ; I cannot make the account balance . - 2. To oscillate like the beams of a balance; waver; hesitate. [Rare.] He would not balance nor err in the determination of his choice. Locke . 3. In dancing, to move forward and backward, or in opposite directions, like the arms of a balance; especially, to set to a partner.-4. To be employed in finding the balance or balances of an account or accounts.