balancement
English
Etymology
balance + -ment
Noun
balancement
- The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise.
- 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], OCLC 1029641431:
- The elder Geoffroy and Goethe propounded , at about the same time , their law of compensation or balancement of growth
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for balancement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Etymology
From balancer (“to swing”) + -ment.
Pronunciation
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Noun
balancement m (plural balancements)
- rocking, swaying
- equilibrium, balance
Further reading
- “balancement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.