Ballast
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Ballast may refer to:
[edit] Objects
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- Ballast tank, a device used on ships and submarines and other submersibles to control buoyancy and stability
- Ballast weights, metallic plates used to bring auto racing vehicles up to the minimum mandated weight
- Electrical ballast, used to stabilize the current flow in lamps
- Sailing ballast, ship's ballast, used to weigh a ship down
- Track ballast, the layer of crushed rock or gravel upon which railway track is laid
- Ballast carried aboard an aircraft, for example:
- in gliding to increase speed and/or adjust the aircraft's center of gravity
- in a balloon as a buoyancy compensator
- Ballast tractor, a heavy haulage road vehicle designed to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large loads
[edit] Places
- Ballast, Coevorden, a village in the northeastern Netherlands
- Ballast Point, a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, United States
[edit] Other
- Ballast (film), a 2008 film about the effect of one man's suicide on three people
- Ballast (band), a Canadian punk band formed in 2001
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