Cantilever

Quick meaning: Cantilever is a noun meaning To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever.

Meaning

To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever.

More Meanings

1. (engineering, construction) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
2. (figure skating) A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.

Example Sentences

Eventually Sir John Fowler's and Sir Benjamin Baker's continuous steel girder bridge on the cantilever principle was adopted.

Just above, the museums top floor seems to shift slightly, its corners cantilevering over the edge of the story below as if it is sliding off the top of the building.

The underframe, which has been designed to take buffing loads of 200 tons both on the centre coupler and on the retractable side buffers, consists of two centre girders from which cantilevers project to support the solebars, which in turn carry the bodyside structure.

He loved Litchfield, Sharon, Williamsburg; he preferred the Georgian, and he had theories about developing a truly American style. He was called a plodder by all the Kivis, and in turn he disliked their bleak blocks of Modernist cement, their glass-fronted hen-houses, their architectural spiders with cantilever claws.

Word Forms

• cantilevers
• cantalever
• cantaliver
• cantilevering
• cantilevered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include console, overhang, propped, lintel, summer, colonette.

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