All 3 Uses
equilibrium
in
Brave New World
(Edited)
- 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. 85.8equilibrium = balance
- We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium.
p. 111.1equilibrium = stable balance
- It has given us the stablest equilibrium in history.
p. 227.8 *equilibrium = balance
Definitions:
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(1)
(equilibrium) a stable situation in which forces are in balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or emotional balance - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)