Meaning

(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..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

cantilever arch cantilever arm cantilever armchair cantilever beam cantilever bracket cantilever brake cantilever bridge cantilever crane cantilever fin cantilever frame cantilever girder cantilever landing gear cantilever moment cantilever monoplane cantilever mounting cantilever roof cantilever roof bar cantilever sheet-piles cantilever single-strut landing gear cantilever span cantilever spring cantilever timbering cantilever tower crane cantilever truss cantilever-type drilling mast cantilever wall cantilever wing

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

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.

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.

The service stairs were next to the main stairs, separated only by a wall, but what a difference there was between them: the narrow back stairs, dangerously unrailed, under the bleak gleam of a skylight, each step worn down to a steep hollow, turned tightly in a deep grey shaft; whereas the great main sweep, a miracle of cantilevers, dividing and joining again, was hung with the portraits of prince-bishops, and had ears of corn in its wrought-iron banisters that trembled to the tread.

The plank along which pirates made their victims walk was a cantilever. So is a diving board. As you walk along the plank, the unsupported ends dips ^([sic]). It's possible to arrange for two cantilevers to be connected at their unsupported ends, which would let you seamlessly cross from one cantilever to the other while also distributing your weight across both fixed ends.

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.

Word Forms

• cantilevers
• cantalever
• cantaliver
• cantilevering
• cantilevered

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When Should You Use Cantilever?

Use cantilever when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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