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- noun Plural form of
balancer .
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Examples
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I have no desire to fix hardware failures or server issues in the middle of the night, or to figure out how to program routers and load balancers from the command line.
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I have no desire to fix hardware failures or server issues in the middle of the night, or to figure out how to program routers and load balancers from the command line.
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But these vestiges -- which are known as the 'balancers' -- have a new use, and probably act as organs of hearing as well as to guide the flight.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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ELLEN CARROLL, "COOKING LIGHT": The balancers is a group that we think really get it, or that they really understand what living a healthy life style is all about.
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In the place of the second pair they have queer little knobbed rods which are called balancers -- something like the out-riggers on your scull, Jim.
Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Julia Moody 1919
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All the "balancers" start at the same moment, and the first successful ones are awarded the blue ribbon.
Entertaining Made Easy Emily Rose Burt
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The principal characters on which these genera are founded reside in the presence or absence of scales, the presence or absence of eyes, the presence of one or of two series of teeth in the lower jaw, the structure of the tentacle (representing the so-called "balancers" of Urodele larvae) on the side of the snout, and the presence or absence of a vacuity between the parietal and squamosal bones of the skull.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Hence birds have naturally and rightfully been called the "balancers" in nature.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
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And it doesn't remove log files from the network points (routers, ISPs, servers, load balancers, ad-servers) between this PC and the other side.
BetterPrivacy Prevents Tracking By Flash, Other “Super-Cookies” | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Offshore balancers disagree with one another on how often this power must be used, and just how far offshore this power should and must be deployed; but we all agree that our hyperactive foreign policy leans too far in the direction of active intervention military or otherwise.
Rahim Kanani: An In-Depth Interview With Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute Rahim Kanani 2011
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