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Significados de ballast en inglés

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estabilizador

An electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps.

estabilizador

A resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)

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Examples for "light ballast"
Examples for "light ballast"
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The sea got up in a very few minutes but, being now only in light ballast, the vessel rose easily over them.
For Name and Fame; Or, Through Afghan Passes
Uso de ballast en inglés
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A minute later, ballast men slide into view in the secondary shaft.
The windup girl
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The hatch closed, and I heard water hissing in the ballast tanks.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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Partridge rubbed his chin and said, 'Well, she's not in ballast, sir.
Relentless Pursuit
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The site contains evidence of the galleon's original structure, ballast and endowment.
News.com.au
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The turtles, however, were stowed in the hold, and served as ballast.
The Wanderers; Or, Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orino...
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This process continues until the aeronaut has neither ballast nor gas left.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881
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The steel and ties are all right, but the ballast is rotten.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
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Just a little ballast to keep them from capsizing in a gale.
Adèle Dubois / A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Bru...
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In other words, I was to be nothing but so much ballast.
Seven Icelandic Short Stories
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They take up too much space. He spoke as of redundant ballast.
The Last Ship
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He then quickly dumped overboard half the contents of a ballast bag.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
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Why don't you cast off all that ballast, too, and start anew?
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
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Some of the ships' companies were procuring ballast, others getting in water.
Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave De...
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He felt along the gunwale to the ropes of the ballast bags.
Dragonshadow
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A.M., employ'd getting on board stone ballast and Airing the spare Sails.
Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World /...
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All sail and no ballast, though I grant he's brave and daring.
New york: the novel
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Ballast a través del tiempo
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