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 Head, South Australia, a locality
 * 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