Ballast (disambiguation)

Ballast is any dense material used as a weight to provide stability to a vehicle or structure.

It may also refer to:

Places

  • Ballast, Coevorden, a village in the northeastern Netherlands
  • Ballast Head, a headland on Kangaroo Island, Australia
  • Ballast Point (Tampa), a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, US

Other

  • Electrical ballast, used to stabilize the current flow in lamps
  • Ballast tractor, a heavy-haulage road vehicle designed to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large loads
  • Track ballast, the layer of crushed rock or gravel upon which railway track is laid
  • Ballast (film), a 2008 film about the effect of one man's suicide on three people
  • Ballast (website), a Canadian news and cultural website
  • "Ballast", a 1967 story of The Railway Series book Small Railway Engines

See also

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