cantilever
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: First attested in the 1660s, probably from cant (“slope, edge, corner”) + lever, but the earliest form (c. 1610) was cantlapper. First element may also be Spanish can (“dog”), an architect's term for an end of timber jutting out of a wall, on which beams rested.
Inflected forms:
form: cantilevers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cantalever
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: cantaliver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: cantilevers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cantilevering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cantilevered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cantilevered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cantalever
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: cantaliver
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
pos: noun
examples: cantilever circuit
Magnetic resonance force microscopy employs an ultrasmall cantilever arm as a platform for specimens that are then moved in and out of proximity to a tiny magnet.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Derived words: cantileverable
cantileverage
cantilever bra
cantilever chair
microcantilever
nanocantilever
piezocantilever
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: конзола
roman: konzola
lang: Catalan
word: coll fals
lang: Catalan
word: voladís
lang: Catalan
word: mènsula
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 懸臂樑 /悬臂梁
roman: xuánbìliáng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 懸臂 /悬臂
roman: xuánbì
lang: Czech
word: konzola
lang: Czech
word: krakorec
lang: Estonian
word: konsool
lang: Finnish
word: ulokepalkki
lang: French
word: porte-à-faux
lang: German
word: Auskragung
lang: German
word: Kragträger
lang: German
word: Ausleger
lang: German
word: Kragarm
lang: Hungarian
word: konzol
lang: Hungarian
word: konzolos/kiugró tartó/támasz
lang: Hungarian
word: konzoltartó
lang: Hungarian
word: egyoldalt befogott tartó
lang: Hungarian
word: tartókar
lang: Italian
word: mensola
lang: Korean
word: 캔틸레버
roman: kaentillebeo
lang: Norwegian
word: utkraging
lang: Norwegian
word: utkravning
lang: Norwegian
word: utligger
lang: Norwegian
word: utstikker
lang: Polish
word: wspornik
lang: Portuguese
word: em balanço
lang: Russian
word: консо́льная ба́лка
roman: konsólʹnaja bálka
lang: Russian
word: консо́ль
roman: konsólʹ
lang: Russian
word: кро́нштейн
roman: krónštejn
lang: Russian
word: уко́сина
roman: ukósina
lang: Spanish
word: voladizo