self-balancing
adjEtymology From self- + balancing.
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Able to right itself automatically to prevent falling.
- a self-balancing scooter
- a self-balancing unicycle
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Computing, Computing theory, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of a data structure: able to maintain a small height (number of levels) regardless of insertions and deletions.
- a self-balancing binary search tree