fulcrum
titik tumpuan
definition
noun
By rotating the dial, the pivot point or the fulcrum of the brake lever moves in and out.
the point on which a lever rests or is supported and on which it pivots.
example
You get higher leverage with the cable attached closer to the to the pivot, as you would expect when moving the person you are trying to lift toward the 'fulcrum' of a teeter totter.
By rotating the dial, the pivot point or the 'fulcrum' of the brake lever moves in and out.
Only two of the six chapters make masculinity a central analytical 'fulcrum' ; the other four make mention of it but do not explore it in any real depth.
When they attacked, Parks was invariably the 'fulcrum' , prompting and probing with his educated boot and exposing the Ospreys' frailty in midfield.
research is the 'fulcrum' of the academic community
There's a counterweight to create and a 'fulcrum' to position to solve it.
research is the 'fulcrum' of the academic community
Maybe I'm ignorant to the ways of the marketing world, but I can't imagine Winnie the Pooh being the 'fulcrum' which tips scales in the favor of purchasing a cereal.
He was never still, always had the ball, zoomed around larger players, never lost his temper, grinned a small grin, was never the star but always the 'fulcrum' and agent of control and change.
Barrett was the 'fulcrum' on which the game levered Tinryland's way in the first half.
Rediscovered and revitalized, the central space is the 'fulcrum' of the scheme, its character changing with the various levels.
the hall serves as a 'fulcrum' for community activities
Chipping out enough so he can get a bite with the pry bar, he uses the hammer's head as a 'fulcrum' , then leans in with his weight.
The event that forms Ararat's 'fulcrum' is the 1915 attempted genocide of the Armenian people by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire.
she was the 'fulcrum' of family life
Mason always has been a great team player, as long as he was the 'fulcrum' in its offense or played a major role.
An American rapprochement with Iran is essential, he would argue, but the real 'fulcrum' should be Najaf.
If pre-emption replaces deterrence as the 'fulcrum' of global engineering, then the boundary blurs between the forces of civilisation and terror.
An elastic pole, about 15 feet long, was placed over a 'fulcrum' and fastened to the ground at one end.
Yet in the past humanism has always played down our dependency on our planetary habitat, placing the 'fulcrum' of our humanity in an essentially mythological realm of spirit and reason.
The airy Atrium café is an ingenious use of ‘yard space’ and has become a 'fulcrum' around which the centre rotates, serving affordable gourmet food cooked on the premises, prepared by top chefs.
At the anterior edge of the 'fulcrum' of the pleura is a small articulating process which fit into a socket in the preceding pleura or the margin of the fixed cheek.
But when you pare away the sentimentality, when you realise that sumptuous as the scenery is it does not pay the mortgage, you appreciate that farming is the 'fulcrum' of rural life, the pivot that makes everything else possible.
The action of adduction along the frontal plane of the body will cause the arm to be moved in a curvilinear arc (the arm being a lever system with the 'fulcrum' at the shoulder end).
A perineum on which forceps are used may be thought of more like a mechanical 'fulcrum' than a genital area.
On a hard surface, the base of the scales bowed slightly, shortening the distance between the 'fulcrum' of the levers and the point at which they put pressure on the spring.
Yet they camped in the Tullow 22 for most of the closing ten minutes with Stephen Dalton making one good surge for the left corner and O'Brien the 'fulcrum' of drives off penalties after that.
The right foot was then placed on the platform so that the 'fulcrum' , if present, entered its receiving groove and was held in place while the subject was asked to stand up.
And Archimedes proved from his axioms on the lever that two unequal weights balance at distances from the 'fulcrum' that are inversely proportional to their weights.
It might be the 'fulcrum' around which the future of baseball will pivot.
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