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self-ˈbalancing, ppl. a.
[self- 1 f, 4.]
1. In technical use: capable of balancing itself automatically; automatically producing balance.
1912Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 638/1 An upright position is always assured when the car is stationary, a continuous self-balancing motion being given to the vehicle. 1954D. E. Carritt in Isaacs & Iselin Oceanogr. Instrumentation 182 Snodgrass et al. have constructed a self-balancing photoelectric filter photometer.
2. Accounting. Designating that in which the debit side of the accountable items is equal to the credit side; self-balancing ledger (see quot. 1970).
1898S. S. Dawson Accountant's Compendium 350/2 The Customers' Ledger..is self-balancing because of the operation of the Controlling Account. 1931Economist 3 Jan. 7/2 The gross figures, including self-balancing revenue, show receipts from all sources amounting to {pstlg}486·5 millions. 1953Chambers's Jrnl. June 343/1 Catering generally is a profitable or at least self-balancing item in the seaside resort budget. 1964R. B. Notestein in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 52 The economy was self⁓balancing, with authority exerted by impersonal regional markets. 1970M. Greener Penguin Dict. Commerce 297 Self-balancing ledger, an accounting term for a personal ledger containing a control account. |