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- Dictionarycantilever/ˈkantɪliːvə/
noun
- 1. a long projecting beam or girder fixed at only one end, used in bridge construction.
verb
- 1. support by a cantilever or cantilevers: "a glass and stone box is cantilevered over the street"
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A cantilever is a rigid structural element that extends horizontally and is unsupported at one end. Learn about the types, uses, and history of cantilevers in construction, architecture, and aircraft.
A cantilever is a projecting beam or member supported at only one end, or a bridge or structure that uses this design. Learn more about the word history, examples, synonyms, and related phrases of cantilever.
A cantilever is a long bar that is fixed at only one end to a vertical support and is used to hold a structure such as an arch, bridge, or shelf in position. Learn more about the engineering term, its pronunciation, and its usage in sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus.
A cantilever is a rigid structure that projects from a vertical support, such as a beam, a bridge, or a wing. Learn more about the origin, usage, and examples of cantilever in different fields and contexts.
a. a beam, girder, or structural framework that is fixed at one end and is free at the other. b. (as modifier) a cantilever wing. 2. a wing or tailplane of an aircraft that has no external bracing or support. 3. a part of a beam or a structure projecting outwards beyond its support.
A cantilever is a long bar that is fixed at only one end to a vertical support and is used to hold a structure such as an arch, bridge, or shelf in position. Learn more about the meaning, usage and pronunciation of cantilever, and see examples and translations in different languages.
Cantilever, beam supported at one end and carrying a load at the other end or distributed along the unsupported portion. The upper half of the thickness of such a beam is subjected to tensile stress, tending to elongate the fibres, the lower half to compressive stress, tending to crush them.
