self-balancing

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ balancing.

Adjective

self-balancing (not comparable)

1. Able to right itself automatically to prevent falling.

   a self-balancing scooter

   a self-balancing unicycle

2. (computing theory) Of a data structure: able to maintain a small height (number of levels) regardless of insertions and deletions.

   a self-balancing binary search tree