Crossword clues for cantilever
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cantalever \Can"ta*lev`er\, n. [Cant an external angle + lever a supporter of the roof timber of a house.] [Written also cantaliver and cantilever.]
(Arch.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.
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(Engin.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs.
Cantalever bridge, a bridge in which the principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion, to complete the connection.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context architecture English) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony. vb. To project in the manner of a cantilever, or to project (something) by means of a cantilever
WordNet
n. projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only
v. project as a cantilever
construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed; "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings"
Wikipedia
[[Image:Cantilever examples.svg|right|thumb|200px|frame|A schematic image of three types of cantilever. The top example has a full moment connection (like a horizontal flag pole bolted to the side of a building).
The middle example is created by an extension of a simple supported beam (such as the way a diving-board is anchored and extends over the edge of a swimming pool). The bottom example is created by adding a Robin boundary condition to the beam element, which essentially adds an elastic spring to the end board. The middle and bottom example may be considered structurally equivalent, depending on the effective stiffness of the spring and beam element]]
A cantilever is a rigid structural element, such as a beam or a plate, anchored at only one end to a (usually vertical) support from which it is protruding. Cantilevers can also be constructed with trusses or slabs. When subjected to a structural load, the cantilever carries the load to the support where it is forced against by a moment and shear stress.
Cantilever construction allows for overhanging structures without external bracing, in contrast to constructions supported at both ends with loads applied between the supports, such as a simply supported beam found in a post and lintel system.
The cantilever is a figure skating element. Similar to the spread eagle, the skater travels along a deep edge. With knees bent, the skater bends his or her back backwards, parallel to the ice.
It was invented by Werner Groebli, better known as "Mr. Frick", a long-time show skater with Ice Follies. More recently, it became one of Ilia Klimkin's signature moves.
Usage examples of "cantilever".
Waddell has shown that, in some cases, it is convenient to erect simple independent spans, by building them out as cantilevers and converting them into independent girders after erection.
The girders over the second and fourth spans are extended as cantilevers over the adjoining spans.
Smoke rose, there, from a fire on the shore, where the low cantilever, cottoned down in fog, shot off to Oakland.
There were no boulders at this newer end of the Chaos, only raw young slab, many of which were the size of village frontons, some standing on end, some flat, some tilted at unlikely angles, some jetting out over voids for three-fourths of their length, held up by the cantilevering weight of another slab.
The central dome was a smooth sweep of cantilevers and fitted stone as wide as the main meeting hall on Hidden Island.
He drove to Woodrow Wilson Drive and then down to his small house that stood on cantilevers and looked out across the Cahuenga Pass.
At that point, specific areas, riddled with channel-intersections, would give way, and immense plugs would be forced up toward the crust, plugs of iron, connected by ferrous cantilevers through the channels between.
It was a spectacular undertaking by reason of its very size, and Bartley realized that, whatever else he might do, he would probably always be known as the engineer who designed the great Moorlock Bridge, the longest cantilever in existence.
Jeshua hesitated, then looked up and saw a cantilever arch throwing out green fluid ropes like a spider spinning silk.
Avoiding an occasional guardsman of the city legion he came at length to the base of the cliff, four hundred feet below the cantilever bridge.
One of these was a heavy, archaic cantilever bridge for which Amalfi could postulate no use at all.
It crossed a rusty cantilever bridge and plunged into a region of wind-distorted apple orchards.
Tractors and pressors leaped from ship to ship, binding the whole myriad of hitherto discrete units into a single structure as solid, even comparatively as to size, as a cantilever bridge.
The greasy heads and cantilever brassieres were still there, but the atmosphere was refined, like a country club dance.
The gate that hung between these posts was a Regardie, with a Mudd cantilever catch and a Miramar double coil spring.