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 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
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