1. Projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only
   "The balcony was supported by a cantilever"

1. Project as a cantilever
   "The balcony cantilevered over the street"
    
2. (architecture) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed
   "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings"

Derived forms: cantilevering, cantilevered, cantilevers

Type of: beam, build, construct, jut, jut out, make, project, protrude, stick out

Encyclopedia: Cantilever