fulcrum
fulcro
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.
translation of 'fulcrum'
noun
fulcro
example
It might be the 'fulcrum' around which the future of baseball will pivot.
If pre-emption replaces deterrence as the 'fulcrum' of global engineering, then the boundary blurs between the forces of civilisation and terror.
For this mechanism to have worked, the 'fulcrum' , or point of rotation, of the gastralia would have been located dorsal to the ventral end of the pubes.
the hall serves as a 'fulcrum' for community activities
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.
An American rapprochement with Iran is essential, he would argue, but the real 'fulcrum' should be Najaf.
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.
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 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.
When they attacked, Parks was invariably the 'fulcrum' , prompting and probing with his educated boot and exposing the Ospreys' frailty in midfield.
When tetrapods bite an object, their jaws are loaded somewhat as beams with the jaw joint acting as a 'fulcrum' .
The 'fulcrum' for the lever action is the surface of the soil when the blade is inserted for digging.
she was the 'fulcrum' of family life
research is the 'fulcrum' of the academic community
Here the discovery of a sexual relationship between the beguiling pottery teacher and a loutish lad becomes the 'fulcrum' of staff-room power: it seems all too alarmingly possible.
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.
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.
By rotating the dial, the pivot point or the 'fulcrum' of the brake lever moves in and out.
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.
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.
An elastic pole, about 15 feet long, was placed over a 'fulcrum' and fastened to the ground at one end.
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.
tourism was the 'fulcrum' for economic growth
Will this be the 'fulcrum' on which control of the Senate turns?
Mason always has been a great team player, as long as he was the 'fulcrum' in its offense or played a major role.
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.
Barrett was the 'fulcrum' on which the game levered Tinryland's way in the first half.
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.
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.
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