balancer

1. 1.

   an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions

   Broaderacrobat
2. 2.

   either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight

   Synonymshalterhaltere

   Broaderwing

   Part ofdipterous insect

Other forms of balancer

plural

balancers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about balancer

What does balancer mean?

balancer means "an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in balancer?

balancer has 3 syllables: bal-an-cer. The stress falls on "bal". In IPA it is /ˈbælənsɚ/.

What is another word for balancer?

Close synonyms include halter, haltere. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is balancer a common word?

balancer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.