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current balance

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noun

Electricity.
  1. an instrument for measuring electric currents, in which the magnetic force between two current-carrying coils is balanced against a weight.


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On the face of it, the current balance of power favour the pupils.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

This is your risk tolerance, and figuring that out is usually how financial advisers start the planning process in earnest, after getting down all your demographic information and calculating your current balance sheet.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

When the 55-year-old New Jersey chiropractor looks at his current balance, he is stupefied.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

Customers on social media reported having trouble logging into their accounts or receiving error messages that their accounts could not be retrieved and that their current balance amount was unavailable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

Thus, in the absolute determination of the ampere with a current balance, the force between two coils carrying current is balanced by the earth’s gravitational force upon a body of determinable mass.

From Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966 by Victor Fritz Lenzen

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