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UNBALANCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbalanced mean? 

UNBALANCED (adjective)
  The adjective UNBALANCED has 3 senses:

1. being or thrown out of equilibriumplay

2. affected with madness or insanityplay

3. debits and credits are not equalplay

  Familiarity information: UNBALANCED used as an adjective is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNBALANCED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Being or thrown out of equilibrium

Synonyms:

imbalanced; unbalanced

Similar:

labile (liable to change)

Antonym:

balanced (being in a state of proper equilibrium)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Affected with madness or insanity

Synonyms:

brainsick; crazy; demented; disturbed; mad; sick; unbalanced; unhinged

Context example:

a man who had gone mad

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Debits and credits are not equal

Similar:

unequal (poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure)

Domain category:

accounting (a system that provides quantitative information about finances)


 Context examples 


Clonal cytogenetic abnormalities are frequently present and usually are unbalanced translocations or deletions of chromosomes 5 and 7.

(Alkylating Agent-Related Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Was there anything in your letter which might have unbalanced him or induced him to take such a step?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons.

(Charge, NCI Thesaurus)

The occurrence of one or more extra or missing chromosomes leading to an unbalanced chromosome complement, or any chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number (which is 46).

(Aneuploidy, NCI Dictionary)

At the end of the red giant phase of a star, these forces become unbalanced.

(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)

Placed near a permanent magnet, when a laser was focused onto a fixed spot on the ring, it locally demagnetizes that portion of the ring, creating an unbalanced net force that causes the ring to turn.

(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)



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