balancement

English

Etymology

balance +‎ -ment

Noun

balancement

1. The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “balancement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

From balancer +‎ -ment

Noun

balancement m (plural balancements)

1. rocking, swaying
2. equilibrium, balance

Further reading

• “balancement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.