Balanced vs. Labile — What's the Difference?

A weighing device, especially one consisting of a rigid beam horizontally suspended by a low-friction support at its center, with identical weighing pans hung at either end, one of which holds an unknown weight while the effective weight in the other is increased by known amounts until the beam is level and motionless. Also called scale.

Open to change; readily changeable or unstable

A state of equilibrium or parity characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces.

Fluctuating widely

The power or means to decide

Decomposing readily

A state of bodily equilibrium

Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.

The ability to maintain bodily equilibrium

Apt or likely to change.

A harmonious or satisfying arrangement or proportion of parts or elements, as in a design.

Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).

An influence or force tending to produce equilibrium; counterpoise.

Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.

The difference in magnitude between opposing forces or influences.

Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.

Equality of totals in the debit and credit sides of an account.

Liable or likely to change.

The difference between such totals, either on the credit or the debit side.

Easily decomposed or inactivated when subjected to heat, radiation, or mildly acidic or alkaline conditions; - of chemical compounds; as, enzymes from thermophilic organisms are not as labile as those from mesophiles.

Something that is left over; a remainder.

Open to change; liable to change;

(Chemistry) Equality of mass and net electric charge of reacting species on each side of an equation.

(chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown

(Mathematics) Equality with respect to the net number of reduced symbolic quantities on each side of an equation.

A balance wheel.

To determine the weight of (something) in a weighing device.

To consider and compare or assess

To bring into or maintain in a state of equilibrium.

To act as an equalizing weight or force to; counterbalance.

To compute the difference between the debits and credits of (an account).

To reconcile or equalize the sums of the debits and credits of (an account).

To settle (an account, for example) by paying what is owed.

To bring into or keep in equal or satisfying proportion or harmony.

Mathematics & Chemistry To bring (an equation) into balance.

To move toward and then away from (a dance partner).

To be in or come into equilibrium.

To be equal or equivalent.

To sway or waver as if losing or regaining equilibrium.

To move toward and then away from a dance partner.

Simple past tense and past participle of balance

Containing elements in appropriate proportion; proportionately weighted on all dimensions and therefore unlikely to tip over.

Being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium; - opposite of unbalanced.

Being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium;

Total debits and credits are equal;