All 3 Uses of
equilibrium
in
Brave New World
- Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consummation, the peace, not of mere vacant satiety and nothingness, but of balanced life, of energies at rest and in equilibrium.†
p. 85..8 *
- We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium.†
p. 111..1
- It has given us the stablest equilibrium in history.†
p. 227..8
Definition:
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(equilibrium) a stable situation in which forces are in balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or (more rarely) emotional balance