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balanceApparatus for weighing or measuring mass. The various types include the beam balance, consisting of a centrally pivoted lever with pans hanging from each end, and the spring balance, in which the object to be weighed stretches (or compresses) a vertical coil spring fitted with a pointer that indicates the weight on a scale. Kitchen and bathroom scales are balances. |
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color) Ziggy Palffy, left, and the Kings were caught off balance against Dan Hinote and Colorado most of the night. As factory work spread in shoemaking, with attendant de-skilling of the union's core constituency, factory owners no longer encouraged the movement and Catholic trade unionism, caught off balance, failed to develop an adequate response. color) Ziggy Palffy, left, and the Kings were caught off balance against Dan Hinote and Colorado most of the night. |
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