imbalance
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əns noun
1.
the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
2.
faulty muscular or glandular coordination.
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| —n | |
| a lack of balance, as in emphasis, proportion, etc: the political imbalance of the programme | |
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Imbalance
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| 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. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Medical Dictionary
imbalance im·bal·ance (ĭm-bāl'əns)
n.
A lack of balance, as in distribution or functioning.
Lack of equality in some aspect of binocular vision, as in strabismus.
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Example sentences
Another frequent reason for lack of successful fertilization is chromosomal imbalance.
It is not the moments of imbalance that are rare, it is the moments of balance.
Monitor the compost for offensive odors, which indicate an imbalance in the compost ratio.
Another point of concern was the imbalance in the number of students traveling to each country.
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