balancer

balancer

[′bal·ən·sər]

(electricity)

A mechanism for equalizing the loads on the outer lines of a three-wire system for electric power distribution, consisting of two similar shunt or compound machines which are coupled together with the armatures connected in series across the outer lines.

(invertebrate zoology)

haltere

(vertebrate zoology)

Either of a pair of rodlike lateral appendages on the heads of some larval salamanders.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.