imbalance

English

Alternative forms

• inbalance

Etymology

From im- +‎ balance.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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^[1]:

     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
• linguistic imbalance

 

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