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fulcrum

UK/ˈfʊlkɹəm/

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Australia/ˈfʊlkɹəm/

fulcrum noun: the support about which a lever pivots.

Noun

fulcrum (plural fulcrums or fulcra)

  1. The support about which a lever pivots.
    • 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.2010, John Allison, Bad Machinery
  2. (figuratively) A crux or pivot; a central point.
    • By this point the fulcrum of concern is the stuprum of men upon men, described as more prevalent than that upon women.2006, Rebecca Langlands, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome, page 119
    • Chelsea's Mason Mount is a top-class talent while West Ham midfielder Declan Rice has moved his game on to another level this season and will be the fulcrum of England's midfield this summer.2021 March 31, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Poland: What shape are Gareth Southgate's side in?”, in BBC Sport

Proper noun capitalized: Fulcrum

Fulcrum

  1. NATO code name for the Soviet MiG-29 aircraft.

fulcrum meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada

fulcrum in Tamil

ஆதாரத் தானம், ஆதாரப் புள்ளி, சுழலிடம், தாங்குபுள்ளி, திருப்பு தானம், சுழல் புள்ளி

fulcrum in Bengali

fulcrum
অবলম্বন obolombon

fulcrum in Telugu

support about which a lever pivots
ఆధారము ādhāramu

fulcrum in Kannada

ಊರಿ, ಆನಿಕೆ
More languagesFewer languages
fulcrum in Gujarati
ખભો khabho, ખંભો khambho
fulcrum in Malay
sangga tuas, fulkrum
fulcrum in Indonesian
fulkrum, titik tumpu
fulcrum in Persian
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Forms of fulcrum

pluralfulcrums
pluralfulcra

Plural of fulcrum: fulcrums or fulcra

Origin of fulcrum

Borrowed from Latin fulcrum (“bedpost, foot of a couch”), from fulciō (“prop up, support”).

Words formed from fulcrum

Questions about fulcrum

What does fulcrum mean?
Fulcrum means the support about which a lever pivots.
What is fulcrum in Tamil?
Fulcrum in Tamil is ஆதாரத் தானம், ஆதாரப் புள்ளி, சுழலிடம். See Fulcrum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fulcrum?
Fulcrum can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fulcrum?
Fulcrum is pronounced /ˈfʊlkɹəm/ (UK).
What is the plural of fulcrum?
The plural of fulcrum is fulcrums.

Words near fulcrum in the dictionary

  1. Fulco
  2. Fulcos
  3. fulcra
  4. fulcral
  5. fulcrate
  6. fulcrum
  7. fulcrums
  8. Fulda
  9. Fuldan
  10. Fuldans
  11. fule

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fulcrum (page history and authors); Fulcrum (page history and authors); fulcrum (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অবলম্বন (Bengali) (page history and authors); fulcrum (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ખંભો (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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