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ballast

English

  1. 🔊 any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
  2. 🔊 an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
  3. 🔊 an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals
  4. 🔊 coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
  5. 🔊 a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
  6. 🔊 make steady with a ballast

Spanish

  1. 🔊 balasto ballast
  2. 🔊 lastre ballast
  3. 🔊 lastrar to ballast

Similar words

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