Ballast

Ballast may refer to:

Objects

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
in a balloon as a buoyancy compensator

Places

Ballast (Coevorden), a village in Drenthe, Netherlands

Other

Ballast (film), a 2008 film about the effect of one man's suicide on three people

Translation

The word "Ballast" occurs as such in the following languages: English, French, Swedish.

Translation(s) in other languages: Ido: Balasto, Japanese: バラスト, Polish: Balast (ujednoznacznienie), Russian: Балласт, Ukrainian: Баласт.