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Definitions: Balancer |
BalancerNoun1. An acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions. 2. Either of the club-like rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mechanical Engineering | See-saw arm pivoted to piston engine(PE)cylinder head transmitting push-rod actuation to valve(s). Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Adjusts (balances) specific gravity of electrolyte (acid solution) in battery cells or in plate-forming tanks to concentration specified: Ascertains temperature and specific gravity of solutions, using thermometer and hydrometer. Turns valves or lever to drain acid or water into cells or tanks to adjust specific gravity of solutions. Connects batteries to charging line and charges batteries for specified time. (references) |
| Weighs and adjusts weight of shuttlecocks: Places shuttlecock (purposely made underweight) on balance scale and reads weight on meter. Positions lead disks on center of cork base of shuttlecock with tweezers until specified weight is indicated by meter (weight must be standard to ensure uniform speed of shuttlecock in flight). Presses lead disks into drilled cork with hand punch. (references) | |
| Attaches arms, legs, and pedestals to display form bodies: Trims openings with knife to fit socket blocks. Tacks block in opening. Sets arm or leg in place in socket block. Inserts pedestal into cavity of bust form and tacks form to pedestal. Sets form on workbench between aligning bars. Aligns bust form with bars to balance it and nails form to pedestal. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BalancerSynonyms: halter (n), haltere (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Balancer |
| English words defined with "balancer": Equilibrist ♦ Poiser. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "balancer": BALANCER, SCALE, BLADE BALANCER ♦ INNER-TUBE INSERTER ♦ POLISHING-WHEEL SETTER ♦ TIRE BALANCER, TUBE BALANCER, Tucumo ♦ wheel setter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Balancer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (balance, bung, countervail, fling, hurl, rock, set off, Square, swing). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Balancer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Balancer" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wheel balancer | 283 |
harmonic balancer | 150 |
balancer | 70 |
tire balancer | 39 |
load balancer | 24 |
tool balancer | 22 |
motorcycle wheel balancer | 20 |
motorcycle tire balancer | 15 |
balancer grinding wheel | 13 |
balancer blade | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "balancer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ekuilibrist (equilibrist), akrobat (acrobat, distortionist, equilibrist, rope dancer, rope walker, tumbler). (various references) | |
Arabic | الموازن بهلوان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стабилизатор (governor, regulator, stabilizator, stabilizer, suppressor, tail plane). (various references) | |
Dutch | draaibare balk (balance beam, rocker arm, shock compensating rocker beam). (various references) | |
French | balancier (balance, balance beam, balance-wheel, equalizing bar). (various references) | |
German | Schwinghebel (balance beam, equalizer, equalizing bar, oscillating arm, rocker, rocker arm, shock compensating rocker beam, swing arm, swinging arm, valve rocker), Ausgleicher, der. (various references) | |
Greek | ζύγωθρο (balance beam, rocker arm, rocker arms, shock compensating rocker beam), ζυγός (bail, balance beam, busbar, rocker arm, scale, shock compensating rocker beam, weigh-bridge, weighing machine, yoke). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egyensúlyozó (equilibrant). (various references) | |
Italian | bilanciere (balance, balance beam, balance-wheel, catch, equalizer, equalizing bar, guide frame, outrigger, rocker, rocker arm, shock compensating rocker beam, spreader, swing bar, swingle-tree, tripper device, valve rocker, walking beam, yoke). (various references) | |
Korean | 밸런서. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alancerbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | equilibrista (equilibrist), equalizador (balance beam, rocker arm, shock compensating rocker beam), dínamo (boost, d.c.generator, direct current generator, Dynamo, dynamometer, electric generator, generator), acrobata (acrobat, equilibrist). (various references) | |
Romanian | echilibrist (acrobat, equilibrist, funambulist). (various references) | |
Russian | стабилизатор (reactor, stabilizator, stabilizer, tail group, tail plane, vane). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ekvilibrista (equilibrist). (various references) | |
Spanish | balancín (balance pole, bell crank, dandy, equalizer, equalizing bar, horn, lifting beam, lifting eyes of the heavier moulding boxes, outrigger, paternoster, rocker, rocker arm, seesaw, singletree, sling beam, sway-beam, valve rocker, yoke), equilibrista (aerialist, equilibrist). (various references) | |
Swedish | balanserare. (various references) | |
Ukranian | жердина еквілібриста, еквілібрист (balance-master, equilibrist), акробат (acrobat, contortionist, distortionist, tumbler), балансер. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | con lắc người l m xiếc trên dây. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "balancer": balancers. (additional references) | |
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"Balancer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Babacar, balancy, Bellanca, bellenger, Betancur, Bolanger, Braganca. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "balancer" (pronounced ba"lunser) |
| 4 | -u n s er | licenser, licensor. |
| 3 | -n s er | advancer, announcer, answer, anticancer, biosensor, bouncer, cancer, censer, censor, condenser, cosponsor, dancer, denser, dispenser, enhancer, freelancer, Lancer, mincer, sensor, Spencer, sponsor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: barnacle. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: balance. | |
-2 letters: anlace, arable, arcane, carnal, lancer. | |
-3 letters: abler, acerb, alane, anear, areal, areca, arena, baler, banal, blare, blear, brace, cabal, caber, cable, canal, caner, carle, clean, clear, craal, crane, labra, lacer, lance, learn, nacre, rance, renal. | |
-4 letters: able, acne, acre, alae, alan, alar, alba, alec, anal, area, baal, bale, bane, bare, barn, bean, bear, blae, brae, bran, bren, cane, carb, care, carl, carn, clan, crab, earl, earn, elan, lace, lane, lean, lear, nabe, narc, near, race, rale, real. | |
-5 letters: aal, aba, ace, ala, alb, ale, ana, ane, arb, arc, are, baa, bal, ban, bar, bel, ben, bra, cab, can, car, cel, ear, era, ern, lab, lac, lar, lea, nab, nae, neb, ran, reb, rec. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: balancers, barnacled, barnacles, rebalance. | |
+2 letters: candelabra, rebalanced, rebalances, tabernacle. | |
+3 letters: berascaling, blackhander, candelabras, candelabrum, chamberlain, hibernacula, increasable, intractable, overbalance, rebalancing, tabernacled, tabernacles, unreachable, untraceable. | |
+4 letters: blackhanders, candelabrums, chamberlains, contrastable, elasmobranch, incomparable, ineradicable, ineradicably, merchantable, microbalance, nonbacterial, overbalanced, overbalances, tabernacling, tabernacular, unbreachable, uncalibrated, uncapturable, uncharitable, unsearchable, unsearchably. | |
+5 letters: anaerobically, antibacterial, ascertainable, elasmobranchs, inappreciable, inappreciably, intracerebral, lamellibranch, microbalances, noncomparable, overbalancing, polycarbonate, recalibrating, recalibration, tractableness, unreclaimable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 61 6E 63 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. .- -. -.-. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l a n c e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 0061 006E 0063 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667786780697184 |
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