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{{also|basculé}}
==English==
[[File:Agility Bascule 2.jpg|thumb|bascule]]
[[File:Bascule Bridge (PSF).jpg|thumb|A bascule bridge]]
[[File:Mechanism for 1715 breech loading firearm.jpg|thumb|breech-loading firearm showing the bascule]]

===Etymology===
From {{bor|en|fr|bascule}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈbæskjuːl/}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# A [[counterbalance]]d [[structure]] having one end that rises as the other lowers.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1932| title=Journal of the Association of Chinese & American Engineers|author=| page=10| passage=In the late eighties and early nineties several new types of movable spans were advocated, including the pull-back draw, the jackknife span, the bob-tail swing, the horizontal-folding draw, the shearpole draw, the gyratory lift, the ''transbordeur'', the double-cantilever swing, several types of '''bascule''', and the vertical lift.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Historic Highway Bridges in Wisconsin|page=87|author=Jeffrey A. Hess|year=1986|passage=The study sample contains nine rolling-lift '''bascules''' of the type invented by Chicago engineer William Scherzer in 1893 , and refined by the engineering staff of the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company, also of Chicago.}}
#* {{quote-av|en|year=2009|title=[[w:Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)]]|director=|author=|actor=[[w:Robert Downey Jr.|Robert Downey Jr.]]|role=Sherlock Holmes|passage=Look at those towering structures. It’s the first combination of '''bascule''' and suspension bridge ever attempted. Most innovative. [In reference to [[w:Tower Bridge]].]}}
# {{lb|en|firearms}} The portion of a [[breech-loading]] firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the [[chamber]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1997|title=Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office |author= |page= |ISBN= |passage=A device for coupling and releasing the trigger mechanism in a '''bascule''' of a gun }}

====Derived terms====
{{col3|en|basculation|bascule bridge}}

====Related terms====
{{col3|en|bacule}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=abcelsu|Caubles|Cebulas|bacules}}

==Dutch==

===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|nl|fr|bascule}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nl|/ˌbɑsˈky.lə/}}
* {{audio|nl|Nl-bascule.ogg}}
* {{hyphenation|nl|bas|cu|le}}
* {{rhymes|nl|ylə}}

===Noun===
{{nl-noun|f|-s|-}}

# [[balance]], balance [[scale]]s
# [[counterweight]]

====Derived terms====
* {{l|nl|basculebrug}}

==French==

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA|pos=v}}
* {{audio|fr|LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-bascule.wav}}
* {{audio|fr|LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-bascule.wav|a=Canada}}

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|f}}

# [[seesaw]]
# {{lb|fr|electronics}} [[flip-flop]]

====Derived terms====
* {{l|fr|chaise à bascule}}
* {{l|fr|cheval à bascule}}
* {{l|fr|fauteuil à bascule}}

===Verb===
{{head|fr|verb form}}

# {{inflection of|fr|basculer||1//3|s|pres|ind//sub|;|2|s|impr}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}

==Italian==

===Noun===
{{head|it|noun form|g=f}}

# {{plural of|it|bascula}}

==Spanish==

===Verb===
{{head|es|verb form}}

# {{es-verb form of|bascular}}