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cantilever

[kan-tl-ee-ver, -ev-er] / ˈkæn tlˌi vər, -ˌɛv ər /






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The four giant cantilever cranes beside the River Clyde are iconic structures.

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

She points out the ways in which the river’s embankments could be reimagined: with garden-covered steps or with a cantilever boardwalk.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2022

These side tracks were carried on the cantilever ends of long timbers laid across the old viaduct between ties.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

Filled with surprising patios, alleys and landings, it’s one of his forays into postmodernism: brightly colored buildings contain, among other features, gabled brick rooflines, extra-bulky columns, long cantilevers and cylindrical steel elevators.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2025

Rapidly-sinking rays streaming through the gaps of the cantilevers onto the pitch.

From BBC Apr. 19, 2024

Where the top level extends cantilevers out to create a covered porch, it is supported by a pair of tree trunks that Austin’s builder, Kaplan Homes, found washed up on the beach.

From Seattle Times Jan. 7, 2024

Saarinen’s concrete structure, with its soaring, winglike vaulted roof, its huge fields of glass, and its thrilling interior curves, cantilevers and airy mezzanines, is one of the great buildings of the past century.

From Washington Post Jun. 12, 2019

The cantilevers are fixed to the shore side of the towers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

Its essence was its array of cantilevered terraces, set at right angles to one another and projecting deep out into space.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

A few steps from the hotel, a cantilevered pedestrian bridge spans Falls Park on the Reedy, a wooded ravine with cascading waterfalls and leafy footpaths.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

“I wanted it to feel cantilevered and light because I didn’t want it to block the views,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 11, 2025

As the sun set on a cloudy evening in Times Square on Friday, a 65-foot-long frankfurter cantilevered into the sky and spewed out a blast of rainbow confetti.

From New York Times May 7, 2024

You are looking at the only cantilevered structure of its kind on earth.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

That could include tunneling, cantilevering lanes or other ideas the private sector might suggest to limit Beltway widening, he said.

From Washington Post Dec. 14, 2019

Museum and designer retreated from the idea of cantilevering a wing over the principal tar pool.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 29, 2019

“His body is cantilevering, but he’s fortunate at one point to get his left foot on the ground to brace against the momentum of the football striking his hand.”

From New York Times Nov. 24, 2014

He was creative from the time he was cantilevering building blocks.

From The Guardian Mar. 10, 2011

It's a taxidermist's dream, with massive forelegs and a rack that should need cantilevering.

From Time Magazine Archive




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