Fulcrum
noun
The point or support on which a lever moves.
When using a seesaw, the fulcrum is the central point that stays grounded while the other ends move up and down.
Often appears as...
- fulcrum point
- fulcrum of the lever
noun
The thing that plays a central or essential role in an activity, event, or situation.
The new vaccine could be the fulcrum for eradicating the disease worldwide.
Often appears as...
- fulcrum of the strategy
- fulcrum of change
noun
The point or support on which a lever moves.
When using a seesaw, the fulcrum is the central point that stays grounded while the other ends move up and down.
Often appears as...
- fulcrum point
- fulcrum of the lever
noun
The thing that plays a central or essential role in an activity, event, or situation.
The new vaccine could be the fulcrum for eradicating the disease worldwide.
Often appears as...
- fulcrum of the strategy
- fulcrum of change
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Pivot
In physical contexts, 'fulcrum' refers to the actual point that supports movement.
The engineer explained that the fulcrum must be stable for the bridge to open smoothly.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
'Fulcrum' may be an unseen part inside a mechanism, vital for its operation.
The clock stopped working because the fulcrum in the mechanism was displaced.
Pro Tip 3/3Balance Essential
'Fulcrum' implies balance, as it's the stabilizing factor in a lever system.
Place the fulcrum under the board's center to evenly balance the weight.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Pivot
In physical contexts, 'fulcrum' refers to the actual point that supports movement.
The engineer explained that the fulcrum must be stable for the bridge to open smoothly.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
'Fulcrum' may be an unseen part inside a mechanism, vital for its operation.
The clock stopped working because the fulcrum in the mechanism was displaced.
Pro Tip 3/3Balance Essential
'Fulcrum' implies balance, as it's the stabilizing factor in a lever system.
Place the fulcrum under the board's center to evenly balance the weight.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Pivot
In physical contexts, 'fulcrum' refers to the actual point that supports movement.
The engineer explained that the fulcrum must be stable for the bridge to open smoothly.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
'Fulcrum' may be an unseen part inside a mechanism, vital for its operation.
The clock stopped working because the fulcrum in the mechanism was displaced.
Pro Tip 3/3Balance Essential
'Fulcrum' implies balance, as it's the stabilizing factor in a lever system.
Place the fulcrum under the board's center to evenly balance the weight.
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The mighty mathematics...
while your friend's weight provides the resistance force. What Archimedes learned was that there is an important relationship between the magnitudes of these forces and their distances from the fulcrum. The lever is balanced when the product of the effort force and the length of the effort arm
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Ronald Rael: An...
is by imagining a teeter-totter, where the actions on one side had a direct consequence on what happens on the other side, because you see, the border itself is both a symbolic and literal fulcrum for US-Mexico relations,
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Homemade Bottle Opener PIPE...
of your hand over the back side of the bottle cap and you're gonna use your index finger as a fulcrum to pop top right off Cheers
Video examples
The mighty mathematics...
while your friend's weight provides the resistance force. What Archimedes learned was that there is an important relationship between the magnitudes of these forces and their distances from the fulcrum. The lever is balanced when the product of the effort force and the length of the effort arm
Video examples
Ronald Rael: An...
is by imagining a teeter-totter, where the actions on one side had a direct consequence on what happens on the other side, because you see, the border itself is both a symbolic and literal fulcrum for US-Mexico relations,
Video examples
Homemade Bottle Opener PIPE...
of your hand over the back side of the bottle cap and you're gonna use your index finger as a fulcrum to pop top right off Cheers
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Graham Joyce
English Writer
Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.
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Whit Stillman
American Director
So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them.
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Kate Christensen
American Novelist
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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Aisha Tyler
American Actress
I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.
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John Fowles
English Novelist
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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Bowen Yang
I feel like doing Las Culturistas' for an extended period of time has taught me where to put the fulcrum on having structure and having looseness.
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Vijay Sethupathi
Indian Actor
Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us back on track.
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Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Indian Diplomat
In political, strategic as well as economic and commercial areas, Singapore has become a fulcrum for India's policies east of India.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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Archimedes
Greek Mathematician
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Quote examples
Graham Joyce
English Writer
Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.
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Whit Stillman
American Director
So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them.
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Kate Christensen
American Novelist
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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Aisha Tyler
American Actress
I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.
Quote examples
John Fowles
English Novelist
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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Bowen Yang
I feel like doing Las Culturistas' for an extended period of time has taught me where to put the fulcrum on having structure and having looseness.
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Vijay Sethupathi
Indian Actor
Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us back on track.
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Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Indian Diplomat
In political, strategic as well as economic and commercial areas, Singapore has become a fulcrum for India's policies east of India.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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Archimedes
Greek Mathematician
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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