cantilever
nounEtymology
First attested in the 1660s, probably from cant (“slope, edge, corner”) + lever, but the earliest form (c. 1610) was cantlapper. First element may also be Spanish can (“dog”), an architect's term for an end of timber jutting out of a wall, on which beams rested.
Definitions
A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting…
A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
- Eventually Sir John Fowler's and Sir Benjamin Baker's continuous steel girder bridge on the cantilever principle was adopted.
A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge…
A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.
To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever.
- Just above, the museums top floor seems to shift slightly, its corners cantilevering over the edge of the story below as if it is sliding off the top of the building.
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