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Definitions: Imbalance |
ImbalanceNoun1. A state of disequilibrium (as may occur in cases of inner ear disease). 2. (mathematics) a lack of symmetry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ImbalanceSynonyms: asymmetry (n), instability (n), unbalance (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: balance (n), symmetry (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Imbalance |
| English words defined with "imbalance": alopecia ♦ disproportion ♦ gynecomastia ♦ oliguria ♦ Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus ♦ Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "imbalance": Acid-Base Imbalance, aero-otitis media, Allelic Imbalance, aviator's ear ♦ BALANCING-MACHINE OPERATOR, BALANCING-MACHINE SET-UP WORKER, Bone Remodeling ♦ Coronary Disease ♦ dynamic-balancer set-up worker ♦ Electrical Charge, external imbalance ♦ heat stress index of Belding and Hatch ♦ imbalance charge, IMBALANCE ENERGY ♦ payments imbalance ♦ real precession ♦ trade imbalance, traffic distribution imbalance ♦ Water-Electrolyte Imbalance. (references) |
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Health | Electrolyte imbalance. (references) | |
Laboratory studies suggest that an imbalance between these chemicals may underlie myoclonus. (references) | ||
BV is associated with an imbalance in the bacteria that are normally found in a woman's vagina. (references) | ||
Business | Presently, there is an imbalance in the economy, with the majority of South Africans not having a fair stake in the economy. (references) | |
Some research indicates that a key reason for the abduction and sale of women is a serious imbalance in sex ratios in certain localities. (references) | ||
Note that the Western Cape also has the highest per capita expenditure on education, which reflects an imbalance in the allocation of resources among provinces. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | As a result, the 1999 presidential campaign saw a marked imbalance in the coverage of candidates on national television and radio channels, with opposition candidates receiving very limited and often negative coverage at the national level. (references) |
Economic History | Korea | The imbalance between exports and imports is quite pronounced. (references) |
Pakistan | External imbalance has left Pakistan with a growing foreign debt burden. (references) | |
Minorities | Benin | During the year, new appointments reduced the imbalance. (references) |
Political Economy | Brazil | In addition to geographic imbalance, Congress is characterized by a large number of political parties. (references) |
Benin | The armed forces continued to play an apolitical role in government affairs despite concerns about lack of morale within its ranks and an ethnic imbalance within the forces. (references) | |
Political Rights | Burundi | The Transitional Political Platform endorses in general terms the restoration of democracy and correction of the ethnic imbalance within the army and the judicial system. (references) |
Trade | Colombia | The measure was taken to avoid an exchange rate imbalance that could have resulted from an influx of US dollars from the $2 billion purchase by Spanish company ENDESA in September of that year of a subsidiary of the Bogota Energy Co. While some authorized analysts say that this was a first step towards the dollarization of the Colombian economy, most concur that it was a necessary step to avoid a sudden imbalance in the exchange rate. (references) |
Women | Ghana | In 2000 the Government established a women's desk responsible for addressing the gender imbalance in the civil service. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Imbalance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Imbalance" is used about 431 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% | 431 | 13,316 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "imbalance": Acid-Base Imbalance ♦ Allelic Imbalance ♦ external imbalance ♦ imbalance charge ♦ payments imbalance ♦ trade imbalance ♦ traffic distribution imbalance ♦ Water-Electrolyte Imbalance. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
hormone imbalance | 238 |
chemical imbalance | 157 |
hormonal imbalance | 153 |
electrolyte imbalance | 74 |
symptom of hormone imbalance | 31 |
female hormone imbalance | 17 |
imbalance | 15 |
electrolyte fluid imbalance | 12 |
thyroid imbalance | 11 |
brain chemical imbalance | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "imbalance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mungesë ekuilibri, mosbalancim, çekulibër. (various references) | |
Arabic | اللاتوازن (imponderables), إختلال التوازن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | липса на равновесие. (various references) | |
Chinese | 失調 (out of tune), 不平衡状态. (various references) | |
Czech | nerovnováha (disbalance), nepomìr (disproportion). (various references) | |
Danish | ubalance (out-of-balance, unbalance), metabolisk uligevægt (balance disturbance), ernæringsmæssig ubalance. (various references) | |
Dutch | stofwisselingsstoornis (balance disturbance), onevenwicht in de voeding. (various references) | |
Farsi | ناهماهنگی (Inconsistency), عدم توازن (Unbalance), عدم تعادل . (various references) | |
Finnish | epätasapaino ravintoaineiden saannissa. (various references) | |
French | déséquilibre. (various references) | |
German | Ungleichgewicht(Abrüstung), unausgewogenheit (inelegance), unausgeglichenheit (disequilibrium, disharmony, inequality, instability, moodiness, unevenness), missverhältnis (discrepancy, disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, incongruity, maladjustment), Fehlernährung (false nutrition, malnutrition), Bilanzstoerung (balance disturbance). (various references) | |
Greek | ανισορροπία (insanity), διαταραχή ισοζύγιου (balance disturbance), διαταραχή μεταβολισμού (balance disturbance). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אי אזון, חוסר אזון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiegyensúlyozatlanság (out of trim, unbalance), egyensúlyhiány (disequilibrium). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketimpangan (lameness, one-sidedness, partiality), ketidakseimbangan (disproportion). (various references) | |
Italian | squilibrio alimentare, squilibrio (derangement, disequilibrium, insanity, out-of-balance, unbalance), dismetabolismo (balance disturbance). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 跛行 (limp, unfavorable progress), インド洋 (impact, impact loan, impedance, impulse, in high, Indian Ocean, in-house, inner, inner life, inner space, inner trip, inner venture, instrument panel, Inverness, inverse, inverter, invisible, invisible risk, invitation), 不釣り合い (asymmetry, disparity, unbalance), 不釣合い (asymmetry, disparity, unbalance), 不均衡 (disparity, inequality, out of balance), 不均等 (disparity, inequality, out of balance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふき""う (disparity, inequality, out of balance), ふき"とう (disparity, inequality, out of balance), ふつりあい (asymmetry, disparity, unbalance), インバランス , は"う (limp, unfavorable progress, wave height). (various references) | |
Korean | 불 형 (Asymmetric, Asymmetrical). (various references) | |
Manx | neuveihaghey, meechorrymid (unevenness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imbalanceay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imam, desequilíbrio metabólico (balance disturbance), desequilíbrio alimentar, desequilíbrio (disequilibrium, disestablish, instability, out-of-balance, unbalance). (various references) | |
Romanian | dezechilibru (disequilibrium). (various references) | |
Russian | отсутствие равновесия, неустойчивость (caprice, disequilibrium, instability, lability, unstableness, wobbliness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neuravnoteženost (disbalance). (various references) | |
Spanish | desequilibrio metabólico (balance disturbance), desequilibrio alimentario, desequilibrio (disequilibrium, mismatch, out-of-balance, unbalance). (various references) | |
Swedish | obalans. (various references) | |
Thai | ความไม่สม"ุล. (various references) | |
Turkish | oransızlık (disproportion, imparity, irrationality, the irrational), dengesizlik (alienation, derangement, disequilibrium, instability, mental alienation, unbalance, uneven temper). (various references) | |
Ukranian | відсутність рівноваги (unbalance), нестійкість (grogginess, vagrancy), невідповідність (contradiction, disaccord, discordance, discrepancy, disharmony, disparity, incongruity, maladjustment, non-compliance, nonconformity, overproportion, unconformity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự không cân bằng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imbalance": imbalanced, imbalances. (additional references) | |
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"Imbalance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abalance, inbalance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "imbalance" (pronounced i'mba"luns) |
| 6 | -b a" l u n s | balance, unbalance. |
| 4 | -l u n s | ambivalence, ambulance, benevolence, condolence, counterbalance, equivalence, excellence, insolence, nonviolence, opulence, parlance, pestilence, petulance, prevalence, resemblance, semblance, silence, surveillance, turbulence, Valence, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-l-m-n" | |
-1 letter: ambiance, amicable, analcime, calamine. | |
-2 letters: abelian, alembic, amiable, anaemic, balance, cambial, camelia, cembali, laminae, manacle, melanic, minable, namable. | |
-3 letters: abelia, aecial, ameban, amebic, anemia, anemic, animal, anlace, baalim, becalm, cabman, cabmen, caiman, calami, camail, cambia, cinema, iceman, inlace, lambie, lamiae, lamina, malice, maline, maniac, manila, menial, milneb, nimble. | |
-4 letters: abaci, abeam, aecia, alane, alien, aline, amain, amble, ameba, amice, amine, amnia, amnic, anile, anima, anime, banal, binal, blain, blame, cabal, cabin, cable, camel, canal, ceiba, claim, clean, climb, clime, cline, elain, email, ileac, labia, lamia, lanai, lance, leman, liana, liane, liman, limba, limen, linac, macle, maile, malic, mania, manic, melic, minae, mince. | |
-5 letters: able, acme, acne, alae, alan, alba, alec, alma, alme, amen, amia, amie, amin, anal, anil, baal, bail, bale, balm, bane, bani, beam, bean, bema, bice, bile, bima, bine, blae, blam, blin, cain, calm, came, cane, ceil, cine, clam, clan, elan, emic, iamb, ilea, lace, laic, lain, lama, lamb, lame, lane, lean, lice, lien, lima, limb, lime, limn, line, mabe, mace, mail, main, male, mana, mane, meal, mean, mica, mice, mien, mile, mina, mine, nabe, nail, name, nema, nice. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-l-m-n" | |
+1 letter: imbalanced, imbalances, machinable, misbalance. | |
+2 letters: ambivalence, chamberlain, machineable, misbalanced, misbalances. | |
+3 letters: ambivalences, amicableness, chamberlains, incomparable, mechanizable, microbalance. | |
+4 letters: antimetabolic, biomechanical, companionable, flamboyancies, lamellibranch, microbalances, unimpeachable, unimpeachably, unreclaimable. | |
+5 letters: amicablenesses, antimetabolics, lamellibranchs, machineability. | |
| 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)49 6D 62 61 6C 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- -... .- .-.. .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01100010 01100001 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m b a l a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0062 0061 006C 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
| 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)437968677867806971 |
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