释义 |
cantilevercan‧ti‧le‧ver /ˈkæntəliːvə $ -tl-iːvər/ noun [countable] cantileverOrigin: 1600-1700 Perhaps from ➔ CANT1 (3) + lever - Balance existed to tilt off, floors to leap up from and air to fall or cantilever through.
- In the early planning stages, the sheet piles were designed to cantilever only.
- Of all-metal construction, the Firefly F.I was a cantilever low-wing monoplane with an alclad-covered monocoque fuselage.
- Sixteen were mounted on Peckham cantilever trucks and nineteen on Brill 21E trucks indiscriminately.
- The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi.
- With a hardened aluminium cantilever and parabolic diamond stylus profile it retails for £1,350.
- You are going to make a model of a special kind of bridge called a cantilever bridge.
- You crossed an endless, rickety cantilever bridge after pausing on the Virginia bank to pay a one-dollar toll.
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