| Main Entry: | balanced sentence |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | in grammar, a sentence with two clauses or phrases of fairly equal in length and strength for clarity |
| Example: | "The novel concentrates on character; the film intensifies the violence," is a balanced sentence. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |