balancement
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
balancement
- The act or result of balancing or adjusting; balance.
- 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:
- The elder Geoffroy and Goethe propounded, at about the same period, their law of compensation or balancement of growth; […]
References edit
- “balancement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French edit
Etymology edit
From balancer (“to swing”) + -ment.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
balancement m (plural balancements)
Further reading edit
- “balancement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.