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We found 52 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word ballast:
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General dictionaries General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ballast: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. ballast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. ballast: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. ballast: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Ballast: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary [home, info]
  6. Ballast: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. ballast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. ballast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. ballast: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. Ballast, ballast: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. ballast: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. ballast: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. Ballast (Coevorden), Ballast (band), Ballast (electrical), Ballast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Ballast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. ballast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. ballast: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. Ballast (m), ballast, ballast (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. ballast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. Ballast: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  20. Ballast: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  21. ballast: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  22. ballast: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  23. ballast: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  24. ballast: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  25. ballast: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BALLAST: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
  2. Ballast: DAVID'S GLOSSARY OF THEATRE TERMS [home, info]
  3. Ballast: Natural Magick [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ballast: Travel Industry Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Ballast: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  3. Ballast: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary [home, info]
  4. BALLAST: Maritime Glossary [home, info]
  5. ballast: Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ballast: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ballast: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BALLAST: Acronym Finder [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ballast: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
  2. BALLAST: Age of Exploration Vocabulary [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ballast: Internet Karting Glossary [home, info]
  2. ballast: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ballast: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. BALLAST: Roofing Terms [home, info]
  3. BALLAST: Energy Terms [home, info]
  4. Ballast: Glossary of video terms [home, info]
  5. Ballast (Cold Weather), Ballast (Dimming), Ballast (Electronic), Ballast (Potted), Ballast: Glossary of Lighting Terminology [home, info]
  6. BALLAST: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
  7. Ballast: Construction Glossary [home, info]
  8. Ballast: Glossary of Energy Terms [home, info]
  9. Ballast: Site Lighting Glossary [home, info]
  10. ballast: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  11. Ballast: Latitude Mexico [home, info]
  12. ballast: Aquarium [home, info]

Quick definitions (ballast)

noun:  any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
noun:  an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
noun:  an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
noun:  coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
noun:  a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
verb:  make steady with a ballast

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Phrases that include ballast:   light ballast, ballast tank, ballast factor, ballast line, ballast water, more...

Words similar to ballast:   ballasted, ballasting, stabilize, more...


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