1. Getting two things to correspond
   "the balancing of his chequebook and the bank statement";
   - reconciliation

1. Bring into balance or equilibrium
   "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights";
   - equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise [Brit]
    
2. Be in equilibrium
   "He was balancing on one foot"
    
3. Hold or carry in equilibrium
   "She balanced the book on her head";
   - poise
    
4. Compute credits and debits of an account
   "The accountant balanced the books at the end of the fiscal year"; "She balanced her chequebook every month"

Derived forms: balancings

Type of: account, be, bear, carry, equalisation [Brit], equalization, fit, hold, leveling [US], levelling [Brit, Cdn], match

Antonym: unbalance

Encyclopedia: Balancing