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Imbalance   /ɪmbˈæləns/   Listen
Imbalance

noun
1.
A lack of balance or state of disequilibrium.  Synonyms: instability, unbalance.
2.
(mathematics) a lack of symmetry.  Synonyms: asymmetry, dissymmetry.






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"Imbalance" Quotes from Famous Books



... and/or imbalance with its resulting build-up and/or break-down exists geographically, biologically, sociologically. It can perhaps be best described as successive change. It cannot be referred to as evolution except in its integrative aspect. Disintegratively ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... all white accepted less than their share of black recruits and thus obliged some organizations, the Quartermaster Corps and the Engineer Corps in particular, to absorb a large percentage of black inductees. The imbalance worsened in 1941. In December of that year Negroes accounted for 5 percent of the Infantry and less than 2 percent each of the Air Corps, Medical Corps, and Signal Corps. The Quartermaster Corps was 15 percent ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

... would work wonders within.) A largish tablet of sodium bicarbonate to combat excess gastric acidity—obviously a horrible condition, whatever it was. He topped it all off with a football-shaped capsule containing Liquid Glandolene—"Guards the system against glandular imbalance!"—and felt himself ready to face the day. At least, ...
— Cum Grano Salis • Gordon Randall Garrett



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