imbalance

English

Alternative forms

• inbalance

Etymology

From im- +‎ balance.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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imbalance (usually uncountable, plural imbalances)

1. The property of not being in balance.

   The growing imbalances between the rich and poor first lead to more crime.

   • 6 September 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian‎:

     Ross Barkley, a second-half substitute, almost marked his debut with a goal but by that stage England were playing at half-pace. A team can do that when the imbalance of talent is this considerable.

   • 2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 60:

     There are some stations which have literally 1,000-1,500 passengers a year, whereas Whitby has over 140,000, so there's a huge imbalance between the usage of some stations and others.

Derived terms

• chemical imbalance
• energy imbalance
• linguistic imbalance

Descendants

• имбала́нсный (imbalánsnyj)

Translations

property of not being in balance

Bulgarian: неустойчивост (bg) f (neustojčivost) Czech: nerovnováha f Dutch: onbalans (nl) m or f, onevenwichtigheid (nl) f Finnish: epätasapaino (fi) French: déséquilibre (fr) m German: Ungleichgewicht (de) n Hungarian: kiegyensúlyozatlanság (hu) Irish: neamhchothroime f, éagothroime f Italian: scompenso (it) m Norwegian: Bokmål: ubalanse m Nynorsk: ubalanse m Polish: brak równowagi m Portuguese: desequilíbrio (pt) m Quechua: hank'ay Romanian: dezechilibru (ro) Russian: дисбала́нс (ru) m (disbaláns) Spanish: desequilibrio m, desajuste (es) m, descuadre (es) m Swedish: obalans (sv) c Ukrainian: дисбаланс m (dysbalans) Vietnamese: mất cân bằng