A kind of floating dock which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers.

A form of manual therapy claiming to manipulate energy fields within the human skeleton to improve physical and mental well-being.

plural of detailed balance

(politics, government) A situation of equilibrium in which no country is powerful enough to control, or threaten the interests of, the others.

(mathematics, probability theory) a Markov process is said to show detailed balance if the transition rates between each pair of states i and j in the state space obey

plural of balance wheel

The timekeeping device normally used in mechanical watches and small clocks, consisting of a wheel which oscillates due to a coiled spring.

plural of trade balance

plural of balance beam

A (usually governmental) budget in which income and expenditure are equal over a set period of time.