Ballast may refer to: [edit] 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:
[edit] Places - Ballast (film), a 2008 film about the effect of one man's suicide on three people
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