relative balance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandbalance
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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balance
noun
uk/ˈbæl.əns/us/ˈbæl.əns/
a state where things are of equal weight ...
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(Definition ofrelativeandbalancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, the purpose of the testing must be considered when determining therelativebalanceof sensitivity and specificity.
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Therelativebalanceof these two systems provides a substrate for evolution to fine tune adaptive behaviors such as predator avoidance.
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However, there are many cases where the temporal evolution is not as important as therelativebalanceof occupied states between sounds.
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What is therelativebalancebetween types of perspective and spatial texture in the work?
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Indeed, as argued in the introduction, historically capitalist democracy has rested on arelativebalanceof class power between labour and capital.
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In practice, therefore, debate focuses upon therelativebalanceof structural forces or individual choices, and this is no easy debate to resolve either theoretically or empirically.
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What do they believe therelativebalanceof powers should be?
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The country is entitled to some information about what therelativebalanceof advantage and disadvantage has been.
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They are in a state ofrelativebalancewhich is maintained with minimal effort.
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Today is not the right time to discuss therelativebalancebetween one factor and another.
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Therelativebalancewill depend on specific local circumstances.
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In numercial terms, therelativebalanceof conventional forces on the central front has remained broadly unchanged since 1980.
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I share his judgment about therelativebalanceof risk between proceeding as we propose and not having proceeded at all.
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Then one can see therelativebalanceof power.
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Under the proposed reforms, there will still be a majority of residential votes in four wards, so therelativebalanceof power for the residents will remain the same.
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So when we are deciding what therelativebalancebetween private and public building should be, we must have regard to the aspirations of the people.
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That has been a much more fundamental factor in some seats in recent elections than has therelativebalancebetwen those communities in the particular constituency.
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I am doubtful whether anyone in this country is yet in a position to give a true estimate of therelativebalanceof costs between the two sources.
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Therelativebalanceof these subclasses, in any immune complexes that form, helps determine the strength of the inflammatory processes that follow.
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