Sentence examples for cantilever from inspiring English sources

The word 'cantilever' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a type of construction, such as a bridge or building, that is supported by a beam or beam-like structure anchored only at one end. Example sentence: The ancient Roman aqueduct was held up by a cantilever, an engineering feat that is still admired today.

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cantilever

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To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever.

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Using beams of electrons, he carved a cantilever out of the edge of each crystal (think of a knife held down on a table, with the blade sticking out).

By introducing boron into the silicon, they made the cantilever into a piezoresistive sensor that is, a sensor that responds to deformation by changing its resistance to the flow of electric current.The final step was to coax the artificial cilia into standing perpendicular to the surface of the wafer.

In 1974 David Plowden published a magnificent book of photographs of North America's most ingenious or graceful spans, showing their rich variety of structure (arch, truss, cantilever, suspension) and material (stone, wood, iron, steel, concrete).

Put an object on the end of such a cantilever and the lever will bend.

Their "hair cells" consist of cantilever beams attached to "cilia" made of a magnetisible material.

But just as a cantilever cannot extend too far before it buckles, so an economy cannot place too much weight on a single source of support.

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Also called a swing, or double-cantilever, bridge, the structure is 2,099 feet (640 metres) long and has a steel truss superstructure 41 feet (12.6 metres) wide and 197 feet (60 metres) high at the pivot.

He eventually modified his original concept of a combination suspension-cantilever into one of a simple suspension bridge with a main span of 4,200 feet (1,280 m).

The group's early forays into aircraft design led to the creation of a number of notable Soviet airplanes including the TB-1 (ANT-4), the world's first all-metal, twin-engine, cantilever-wing bomber and one of the largest planes built in the 1920s.

For all that, the Allianz Arena was as boisterous as ever, a wave of noise breaking around its cantilevered sides as Bayern pressed aggressively at the start.

Maillot's choreography showcases all the delicate expressiveness of her long arms and cantilevered back, and while it maximises the virtuoso power of her supple legs and feet, it also probes the pressures and conflicts she carries with her as a world-class ballerina.

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