cantilever

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Over the next 70 years, nearly 50 giant cantilever cranes were built worldwide, with about half of them involving companies based in or near Glasgow.

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

But to preservationists, what’s left of the trams — as much a Kolkata institution as the universities the steel carriages trundle past, or the city’s cantilever bridge — must be saved.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021

These are sometimes marvels of engineering skill, great wooden structures on the cantilever principle or well-constructed iron suspension bridges, remarkable when one considers the rude appliances at the disposal of the builders.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon