Meaning

3 senses

  1. One who, or that which, balances.

    an acrobat who balances themself in difficult positions

  2. An acrobat.

  3. Any of the rear wings of certain insects used for stability in flight.

    either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight

Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: balancers
Singularbalancer
Pluralbalancers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight:halterhaltere

Word family

2 related words
Relatedbalance
Derivedharmonic balancer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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