cantilever

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

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

The river is spanned at this point by one of the largest cantilever bridges in the world.

From The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. by New York Central Railroad Company

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

Fife and Queensferry piers each 145 ft.; two central girders between cantilevers each 350 ft.; and six cantilevers each 680 ft.

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

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

Glazed-earthenware cylinders with rounded tops support hefty forms on their sides that seem to be invisibly cantilevered from the central mass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Koenig’s solution was a cantilevered L-shaped structure with walls of steel and glass, a pool and a free-standing stone-faced fireplace between the living and dining areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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

It was nowhere to be seen at the Oscars, where Jennifer Lawrence’s black lace Dior gown was free of obvious cantilevering.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2016

“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

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

From Time Magazine Archive