nitrogen balance

1. 1.

   the balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted)

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Questions about nitrogen balance

What does nitrogen balance mean?

nitrogen balance means "the balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted)".

Is nitrogen balance a common word?

nitrogen balance 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.