noun
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a person or thing that balances
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entomol another name for haltere
Etymology
Origin of balancer
First recorded in 1400–50 (earlier in Anglo-French surnames); late Middle English; balance, -er 1
Example Sentences
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The U.S. will always serve as this market balancer because its commercial structure permits LNG cargo cancellations.
From Barron's
The root cause of the outage was “an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers,” AWS said.
From Barron's
“The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers,” the company said on its health dashboard.
From Los Angeles Times
“The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers,” the company wrote.
From Barron's
"So Delhi could be that country which is able to work through their differences. It wants to leverage its reputation of a balancer, but it's going to be very difficult."
From BBC
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