Array and Balance

noun

• An orderly arrangement.
  • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
• An impressive display.
  • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
• Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • synonyms: raiment, regalia
• An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

• Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
  • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • synonyms: range, lay out, set out
• Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • synonyms: align

• (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
• (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
• (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
• (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
• (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
• (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
• (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
• (n.) An imposing series of things.
• (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
• (n.) The panel itself.

noun

• A state of equilibrium.
• Equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account.
• Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design. ) "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance- John Ruskin
  • synonyms: proportion, proportionality
• Equality of distribution.
  • synonyms: equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance
• Something left after other parts have been taken away.
  • usage: "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
  • synonyms: remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest
• The difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account.
• Astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra.
  • synonyms: Libra
• The seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22.
  • synonyms: Libra, Libra the Balance, Libra the Scales
• Mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane.
  • synonyms: symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence
• A weight that balances another weight.
  • synonyms: counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, equalizer, equaliser
• A wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat.
  • synonyms: balance wheel
• A scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity.

verb

• Bring into balance or equilibrium.
  • usage: "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"
  • synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise
• Compute credits and debits of an account.
• Hold or carry in equilibrium.
  • synonyms: poise
• Be in equilibrium.
  • usage: "He was balancing on one foot"

• (v.i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.
• (n.) An apparatus for weighing.
• (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
• (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
• (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment or credit, balances the account.
• (n.) The constellation Libra.
• (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
• (n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
• (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
• (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
• (n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
• (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
• (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
• (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
• (n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
• (v.i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
• (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
• (n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
• (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
• (v.i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
• (n.) To equal in number, weight, force or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract or neutralize.

balance is the remaining amount credited to a customer's account, representing the amount the customer is entitled to withdraw, or conversely, the remaining amount of a customer's debt, which is the amount the customer is obligated to repay. The term also refers to the ratio of total credits to total debits.