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Balanced cantilever construction

Balanced cantilever construction is a bridge erection method in which segments are added alternately on opposite sides of a pier to keep the cantilever balanced, typically for spans of 50 to 200 meters.

Balanced Dental Occlusion

Balanced dental occlusion (bilateral balanced occlusion, BBO): denture tooth arrangement with simultaneous working- and balancing-side contacts in centric and eccentric positions; evidence shows no superiority over lingualized occlusion or canine guidance for complete dentures.

Sep 29, 2026

Balanced design

Balanced design is a statistical experimental design in which every combination of factor levels receives the same number of experimental units, making treatment comparisons equally precise.

Sep 29, 2026

Balanced detection

Balanced detection is an optical measurement technique in which two matched photodetectors receive signal and reference beams, and their subtracted photocurrents cancel laser intensity noise common to both.

Oct 10, 2026

Balanced growth

Balanced growth is an economics term meaning either coordinated expansion of several sectors in development economics, or a growth path with output and capital growing at constant rates.

Sep 29, 2026

Balanced incomplete block design

A balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) is a statistical design assigning v treatments to blocks too small to hold all, with every pair occurring equally often.

Balanced line

A balanced line is a two-conductor transmission line whose conductors have equal impedances to a common reference, making it more resistant to interference than unbalanced lines.

Balanced mixer

A balanced mixer is a frequency converter using two or more identical mixing elements so that local oscillator noise cancels at the output while signal products add.

Balanced repeated replication

Balanced repeated replication, also called balanced half-sample replication, is a resampling method for estimating the sampling variance of statistics from stratified surveys with two primary sampling units per stratum.

Balanced sampling

Balanced sampling is a probability sampling method in which weighted sample totals of chosen auxiliary variables exactly match known population totals, reducing the variance of estimators of correlated variables.

Balanced scorecard

The balanced scorecard (BSC) is a performance management framework measuring organizations across financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth perspectives, introduced by Kaplan and Norton in 1992.

Balanced ternary

Balanced ternary is a base-3 numeral system whose digits are −1, 0, and +1, so negative numbers need no separate sign; it drove the Soviet Setun computer of 1958.

Balanchine ballet premieres

Balanchine ballet premieres are the first performances of the ballets of George Balanchine, who created over 425 works from about 1920 until his death in 1983.

Baland Jalal

Baland Jalal, Harvard Department of Psychology neuroscientist and Cambridge PhD, leading sleep paralysis researcher; creator of Meditation-Relaxation therapy, 5-HT2A hallucination theory, and cross-cultural sleep paralysis studies.

Balang Formation

Balang Formation (杷榔组), Cambrian Stage 3-4 shale unit in Guizhou and Hunan, South China, host of the Burgess Shale-type Balang Biota, transitional between the Chengjiang and Kaili biotas, with oryctocephalid trilobites, chancelloriids, and the Huayuan biota.

Balangan Beach

Balangan Beach (Pantai Balangan) is a white-sand, cliff-flanked beach on Bali's Bukit Peninsula in Badung Regency, known for its long left-hand reef surf break, warungs, sunset views, and 1970s surfing history.

Oct 22, 2026

Balangay

The balangay, also spelled balanghai, is a precolonial Philippine wooden boat used for trade and settlement, with the oldest examples excavated at Butuan from 1976.

Balangiga bells

The Balangiga bells are three church bells seized by US troops in 1901 from Balangiga, Eastern Samar, during the Philippine-American War and returned by the United States to the Philippines on December 11, 2018, after 117 years, two from Cheyenne, Wyoming, one from South Korea.

Sep 24, 2026

Balangiga Massacre

The Balangiga Massacre (Insidente sa Balangiga) was a surprise attack by Filipino townspeople and guerrillas on an American infantry company at Balangiga, Samar, on September 28, 1901.

Balanites

Balanites (desert date genus, Agialid synonym) is a genus of nine spiny Zygophyllaceae trees and shrubs from Africa to Myanmar; type species Balanites aegyptiaca yields edible fruit, cooking oil, and steroidal saponins.

Oct 20, 2026

Balanites aegyptiaca

Balanites aegyptiaca (desert date, heglig, Ingudi), a Zygophyllaceae tree of African and Arabian drylands, up to about 10 m, with edible fruit, oil-rich kernels (19.8–49.4% oil), saponins, and IUCN Least Concern status.

Balanitis

Balanitis, with balanoposthitis, is inflammation of the glans penis and foreskin from infection, dermatoses, or premalignancy; common in uncircumcised males and boys, linked to diabetes, treated with antifungals, steroids, hygiene, or circumcision.

Balanitis or balanoposthitis

Balanitis, also called balanoposthitis when the foreskin is involved, is inflammation of the glans penis affecting up to 20% of uncircumcised men; usually caused by Candida, bacteria, or dermatoses, treated with hygiene measures and topical antifungals.

Balanoglossus

Balanoglossus, acorn worm genus (Ptychoderidae, Enteropneusta, Hemichordata) named 1829; proboscis, collar, trunk body plan, gill slits with tongue bars, stomochord, tornaria larva, and role in deuterostome evolution studies.

Balantidiasis

Balantidiasis, also called balantidiosis or ciliary dysentery, is an intestinal infection caused by the ciliate protozoan Balantidium coli (Balantioides coli), a swine-associated parasite transmitted by fecally contaminated food and water, usually asymptomatic but able to cause dysentery.