Definition of "self-balancing" [self-balancing]

• Of someone or something that balances himself or itself (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The self-balancing metaphor could easily apply to the proper proportion of hereditary MPs, whether or not Mr. French realizes it."
• "Elsewhere in the book Mr. French, assessing modern Indian political campaigns, concludes that they "demonstrated in their complexity and illusion, in their duplicity and seeming chaos, that Indian elections were a self-balancing ecosystem.""
• "In his current series, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, the target is the illusion that nature is self-balancing, and how machines make us believe in a stable world."