cantilever

IPA: kˈæntʌɫˈɛvɝ

(architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
A beam anchored at one end and used as a lever within a microelectromechanical system.
(figure skating) 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.

Examples of "cantilever" in Sentences

I'd have sworn my cantilever was the only one that could span Michamac Strait. "
The construction of the arched roof is on the plan which engineers know as the cantilever, and not that of the Roman arch.
For the next few years, you can watch the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge being constructed adjacent to the existing "cantilever" section.
They together form what is called a cantilever; if you lay the letter V on its side, the open end will represent roughly the place where the arch and girders start from the tower.
Indeed, during the same period, inconsistencies and difficulties of using standard, "cantilever" approximations were realised and a true elastic solution was obviously needed to settle the controversy.
Comment on Free beer & hotdogs at the Gowanus Yacht Club this weekend by Jacqueline Jones Comment on Watty & Meg to replace Caffé Carciofo by Cobble Hill Blog » Watty & Meg signage going up right now Studio for Civil Architecture has created a proposal for enclosing the BQE cantilever which is schedule for
And with the change came the bridging - over period -- the kind of cantilever which hope thrusts out from one side of the bank of the swift-flowing stream of adversity in the belief that somebody on the other side of the chasm will build the other half, and the two form a highway leading to a change of scene and renewed prosperity.