| Meaning | A stable situation in which forces cancel one another. |
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| Narrower | Nash equilibrium | (game theory) a stable state of a system that involves several interacting participants in which no participant can gain by a change of strategy as long as all the other participants remain unchanged |
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| balance | A state of equilibrium |
| balance of power | An equilibrium of power between nations |
| dynamic balance | (aeronautics) the state of equilibrium in which centrifugal forces due to a rotating mass (e.g., a propeller) do not produce force in the shaft and so vibration is reduced |
| homeostasis | (physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes |
| isostasy | (geology) a general equilibrium of the forces tending to elevate or depress the earth's crust |
| poise | A state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium |
| thermal equilibrium | A state in which all parts of a system are at the same temperature |
| Broader | situation, state of affairs | The general state of things |
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| Opposite | disequilibrium | Loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable / unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others |
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| Spanish | equilibrio |
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| Catalan | equilibri |
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| Verbs | equilibrate | bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium |
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| equilibrate, equilibrize | bring into balance or equilibrium |
