ballasts

Meaning of ballasts

plural noun
  1. heavy material, such as gravel, sand, or iron, placed in the bilge of a ship to ensure its stability.
    the hull had insufficient ballast
  2. gravel or coarse stone used to form the bed of a railway track or the substratum of a road.
    a thick layer of railway ballast
  3. a passive component used in an electric circuit to moderate changes in current.
    ballasts are permanently wired into existing fixtures
    ballast resistors
verb, 3rd person present
  1. give stability to (a ship) by putting a heavy substance in its bilge.
    the vessel has been ballasted to give the necessary floating stability
    people insufficiently ballasted with factual information
  2. form (the bed of a railway line or the substratum of a road) with gravel or coarse stone.
    the track was laid with rails and ballasted with earth

mid 16th century: probably of Low German or Scandinavian origin.

Information about ballasts

  • The singular form of ballasts is: ballast.
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Hyphenation of ballasts

bal-lasts

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • ballasts is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with ballasts

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