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fulcrum
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A group of similar objects direct attention towards their fulcrum , according to the Law of Moments. ▪ As we saw, the historical model on which this concept of autonomy is based has Beethoven as its fulcrum . ▪ If they used a ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the pivot about which a lever turns [also: fulcra (pl)]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in mechanics, "a prop, a support" (on which a lever turns), 1670s, from Latin fulcrum "bedpost, foot of a couch," from fulcire "to prop up, support" (see balk (n.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fulcrum \Ful"crum\, n.; pl. L. Fulcra , E. Fulcrums . [L., bedpost, fr. fulcire to prop.] A prop or support. (Mech.) That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body. (Bot.) An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fulcrum is the codename of a secret fictional hostile espionage organization on the television series Chuck . Fulcrum serves as the series' main antagonists up until the end of season two, though their specific goals beyond acquiring the Intersect have ...
Usage examples of fulcrum.
As he leveled, he glanced left, noticing that Fastball was well ahead of where he should be and speeding toward the Fulcrums.
The language on the door belongs to an extinct people known as Forkrul Assail, who are collectively personified in our Fulcra by the personage we call the Errant.
Among the Fulcra, the Errant is now positioned in the centre of things.
A plains clan whetted on interminable wars against mounted enemies, the Gilk locked horns with the Betrullid and became the fulcrum for a renewed offensive by the Ahkrata, shattering the Betaklites and seizing the pontoon bridges and barges.
Because, when it is erect, it becomes the fulcrum that enables the levering upright of the second center pole.
Diagrams show relative distances moved by the power and weight in levers having the power nearer the fulcrum than is the weight.
Diagrams show relative distances moved by the power and weight in levers having the weight nearer the fulcrum than is the power.
The position of the weight, the fulcrum, and the power in the different classes of levers, and also the weight-arm and the power-arm in each case.
But he would site it in the very unfashionable faubourg Saint-Antoine: the heart of artisan Paris, and the fulcrum of sans-culotte radicalism in the Revolution.
He walked inside the shelter and approached two technicians working on the left Tumanskii turbofan of his beloved Mig-29 Fulcrum.
Using his knee as a fulcrum, Garric curved the thick bowstaff and hooked the string of waxed horsehair to the upper notch, readying the weapon for use.
Colonel Abunnasr Manesh strode into the airplane shelter and approached the red cockpit ladder of his Mig-29 Fulcrum.
Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age,--at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind.
He rolled onto his back to remove the fulcrum from her stomach, and she collapsed cattywampus atop his torso.
But, for the record, let me state quite clearly that although for various reasons I will probably never put quite the same emphasis on F-0 that Grof does, I nevertheless endorse entirely his general conclusions about the nature, the subphases, the formations and malformations, the pathologies, and the possible types of influence of this crucial fulcrum.