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Plural of cantilever

regular plural

The plural of cantilever is cantilevers.

Forms of cantilever

Singularcantilever /ˈkantɪliːvə/
Pluralcantilevers
Countablecountable

Cantilevers in a sentence

  • It's possible to arrange for two cantilevers to be connected at their unsupported ends, which would let you seamlessly cross from one cantilever to the other while also distributing your weight across both fixed ends.2023 May 3, Philip Haigh, “The art and science of building bridges”, in RAIL, number 982, page 40
  • The shoreward arms of the north and south cantilevers were built into masonry abutments.1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 148. From the entry shoreward
  • Cantilevers dripping with flowering creeper, egg-domes mellowed with ochre lichens, glasseries shadowed by time and weather to brood the conspiracy of old conservatories.1961, William Sansom, Blue Skies, Brown Studies, page 206. From the entry glassery

Meaning of cantilever

  1. noun A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
  2. noun A beam anchored at one end and used as a lever within a microelectromechanical system.
  3. noun A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.

Full definition of cantilever

Questions about the plural of cantilever

What is the plural of cantilever?
The plural of cantilever is cantilevers.
Is cantilever countable?
Cantilever is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cantilever (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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