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balancement en · NOUN

Etymology

From balance + -ment.

Meanings

  1. The act or result of balancing or adjusting; balance.
    • The elder Geoffroy and Goethe propounded, at about the same period, their law of compensation or balancement of growth; […] 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Laws of Variation”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 147: