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Meanings of ballast in английском

испанский
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)

              Usage of ballast in английском
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              A minute later, ballast men slide into view in the secondary shaft.
              The windup girl
              2
              The hatch closed, and I heard water hissing in the ballast tanks.
              Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
              3
              Partridge rubbed his chin and said, 'Well, she's not in ballast, sir.
              Relentless Pursuit
              4
              The site contains evidence of the galleon's original structure, ballast and endowment.
              News.com.au
              5
              The turtles, however, were stowed in the hold, and served as ballast.
              The Wanderers; Or, Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orino...
              6
              This process continues until the aeronaut has neither ballast nor gas left.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881
              7
              The steel and ties are all right, but the ballast is rotten.
              O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
              8
              Just a little ballast to keep them from capsizing in a gale.
              Adèle Dubois / A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Bru...
              9
              In other words, I was to be nothing but so much ballast.
              Seven Icelandic Short Stories
              10
              They take up too much space. He spoke as of redundant ballast.
              The Last Ship
              11
              He then quickly dumped overboard half the contents of a ballast bag.
              The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
              12
              Why don't you cast off all that ballast, too, and start anew?
              Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
              13
              Some of the ships' companies were procuring ballast, others getting in water.
              Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave De...
              14
              He felt along the gunwale to the ropes of the ballast bags.
              Dragonshadow
              15
              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 /...
              16
              All sail and no ballast, though I grant he's brave and daring.
              New york: the novel
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