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self-balancing

self-balancing adjective: able to right itself automatically to prevent falling.

Adjective

self-balancing (not comparable)

  1. Able to right itself automatically to prevent falling.
    • a self-balancing scooter
    • a self-balancing unicycle
  2. Of a data structure: able to maintain a small height (number of levels) regardless of insertions and deletions.
    • a self-balancing binary search tree

Origin of self-balancing

From self- + balancing.

Questions about self-balancing

What does self-balancing mean?
Self-balancing means able to right itself automatically to prevent falling.
What part of speech is self-balancing?
Self-balancing is an adjective.

Words near self-balancing in the dictionary

  1. self-assuredness
  2. self-attention
  3. self-authenticating
  4. self-aware
  5. self-awareness
  6. self-balancing
  7. self-belief
  8. self-beration
  9. self-betrayal
  10. self-betrayals
  11. self-betterment

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