Stability is provided by a circular "skirt keel," with possibly a ballast weight.
As a ballast, another agent emerges as a squeaky-clean enabler.
The Trieste sank with a ballast of tonnes of iron pellets.
Military co-operation acts as a ballast when diplomatic relations fray; less of it increases the chances of drift.
This extra voltage is supplied by a device called a ballast, which also maintains a lower operating voltage after the gas is ionized.
From the sunnier side of the menu there is spaghetti with a tomato sauce in which tuna has fragmented, with a ballast of capers and black olives.
Thereafter it is janus-faced, leading the eye and particularly the ear forward to seek the chime, but with a ballast of sonorities generated in the poem's past.
"A book that we think of as such a discursive wandering into the imagination has a ballast of real fact that was very important to Melville.
In the midst of this vaudeville Ms. Nixon is a centered, luminously normal-seeming presence, a ballast to the madness around her.
The process of using the lights to transmit data starts with a ballast, the component of fluorescent tubes that controls the current needed to create the light.
"It is [about] the rule of law and doing it the right way," and it serves as "a ballast" during political turmoil.
