cantilever
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Giant cantilever cranes date from the beginning of the 20th Century, when Scotland led the world in shipbuilding and engineering.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
When the cantilever is placed on one of the nanoparticles, a current is passed through its tip to measure the conductivity.
From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2024
Columns sway back and forth, like a cantilever swing, creating ample space for large groups to walk through.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2023
Ms. Sicangco then worked with engineering professors at the university to design and 3-D-print a soil-mounted cantilever system that growing leaves could push against.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022
These tension and compression members, of unheard-of power, made of the whole fleet of three hundred forty-three fortresses a single stupendous structure—a structure with all the strength and symmetry of a cantilever truss!
From Spacehounds of IPC by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
