1) Added weight 2) Balloon-flying need 3) Boat stabilizer 4) Canadian news website 5) Enhancer of stability 6) Exclusively Saxon word 7) Exclusively Anglo word 8) Fun with a heavy weight 9) Gas balloon supply 10) Heavy material 11) Hot-air balloon stabilizer 12) It helps tramp to settle down 13) It provides stability
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1) Barretter 2) Gravity 3) Sandbag
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• (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing. • (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally. • (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security. • (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of...
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(from the article `railroad`) When track is laid on a completed roadbed, its foundation is ballast, usually of crushed rock, slag, or volcanic ash. The sleepers, or crossties, to ...
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A weight that is bolted or clamped onto bobsleighs with lighter crews to ensure every team and sled is of maximum and equal weight.
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A device used to start and thereafter control the voltage (or regulate the current) in a fluorescent lamp. The ballast efficacy factor, a measure of the efficiency of fluorescent lamp ballasts, is the relative light output divided by the power input. The ballast factor is the ratio of light output o...
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Hard core used to provide a stable & solid base with good drainage for the track. Usually granite Chippings between 1-2 inches diameter are used, although cinders and other material is not uncommon.
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a device connected between the supply and one or more discharge lamps which serves mainly to limit the current of the lamp(s) to the required value NOTE - A ballast may also include means for transforming the supply voltage, correcting the power factor and, either alone or in combination with a starting device, provide the necessary conditions for ...
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A very heavy material, such as lead or iron, placed in the keel of the boat, or in the bilge. It is used to provide stability. In sailing dinghies the crew uses their weight as ballast.
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Heavy materials, (such as stone, gravel or tiles), carried by ships so as to stable in storms of the past. The ballast may contain artefacts where the ballast was taken on board, e.g. the stone heads at Wallington, Northumberland, came from London. Flint ballast usually came from the east of England.
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A means of giving stability to otherwise unstable electrical loads. 1) Resistive ballast - practice of patching a lantern onto a dimmer that is running an inductive load, for example a fan. 2) Inductive ballast is required by discharge type lanterns as part of the circuitry to control the current that is available to the lamp.
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additional weight to help balance a boat
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1. for ships, water taken onboard into specific tanks to permit proper angle of repose of the vessel in the water, and to assure structural stability. 2. for mobile offshore drilling rigs, weight added to make the rig more seaworthy, increase its draft, or sink it to the seafloor. Seawater is usually used for ballast, but sometimes concrete or iron is used additionally to lower the rig's center of gravity permanently. ...
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Bal'last transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Ballasted ;
present participle & verbal noun Ballasting .]
1. To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
2. To fill in, as the bed of a railroad...
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Bal'last (băl'l a st) noun [ Dutch ballast ; akin to Danish baglast , ballast , OSw. barlast , Swedish ballast . The first part is perhaps the same word as English bare , adj.; the second is last a burden, and hence the meaning a bare
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- A transformer that steps up the voltage in a florescent lamp.
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A device that by means of inductance, capacitance, or resistance, singly or in combination, limits the lamp current of a fluorescent or high intensity discharge lamp. It provides the necessary circuit conditions (voltage, current and wave form) for start
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A transformer that steps up the voltage in a florescent lamp.
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A weight carried in an aeroplane, balloon or airship to trim it with respect to its centre of gravity or to alter its buoyancy. In aeroplanes, ballast usually takes the form of lead disks. In balloons and airships sand or water is usually carried as ballast, as they can be easily discharged.
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noun an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
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noun an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
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A transformer that steps up the voltage in a florescent lamp.
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A device used to control the voltage in a fluorescent lamp.
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A transformer which changes the voltage from your house outlet to the voltage needed to power different types of lighting.
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A transformer that steps up the voltage in a florescent lamp.
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