It was like a balance scale, weighing something, in this case Singledon's words.
Mat, placing his own left eye on a balance scale.
The balance scale is such a simple device that its usage likely far predates the evidence.
A cabinet was set there, but it wasn't on balance scales.
He put a weight on the balance scale and shook crackers onto the other side.
Tomorrow was a balance scale, gripped in the hand of Fate.
"I gather your own balance scale might not tilt the same way."
He put the tube in a balance scale with another of the same make.
The two sides of a balance scale are close enough that the objects experience similar gravitational fields.
No mere mortal could be put beside Jesus on a moral balance scale.