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Plural of ballast

regular plural

The plural of ballast is ballasts.

Forms of ballast

Singularballast /ˈbæl.əst/
Pluralballasts
Countablecountable and uncountable

Ballasts in a sentence

  • Each fluorescent troffer in the room contained three lamps and two ballasts.From the entry troffer

Meaning of ballast

  1. noun Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.
  2. noun Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.
  3. noun Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.

Full definition of ballast

Questions about the plural of ballast

What is the plural of ballast?
The plural of ballast is ballasts.
Is ballast countable?
Ballast is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballast (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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