Definitions
the pivot about which a lever turns
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin fulcrum (“bedpost, foot of a couch”), from fulciō (“prop up, support”).
Used in a sentence
“It is possible to flick food across the table using your fork as a lever and your finger as a fulcrum.”
“MILDRED: Archimedes said give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I will move the world. CHARLOTTE: Yeah she said that twaddle eight or nine times.”
“A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Lever pivot point”7 letters
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