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Definition: Fulcrum |
FulcrumNoun1. The pivot about which a lever turns. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fulcrum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1796. (references) |
Etymology: Fulcrum \Ful"crum\, noun; plural Latin Fulcra, English Fulcrums. [Latin expression, bedpost, from fulcire to prop.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A pivot for a lever. (references) |
Physics | The point of support of a lever. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cause | Pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate cause, causa causans; straw that breaks the camel's back. |
Support | Noun: support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib; point d'appui, gr/pou sto/gr, purchase footing, hold, locus standi; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor; (basement). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fulcrum |
| English words defined with "fulcrum": Beam center, Bell crank ♦ compound lever ♦ Fulciment, Fulcra, Fulcrums ♦ Grasshopper engine ♦ Heterodromous, Homodromous ♦ lever ♦ oarlock ♦ peg, pin, pinch bar ♦ rowlock ♦ thole, tholepin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fulcrum": angle trough ♦ bellcrank drive ♦ CAR DROPPER, car pincher, car runner ♦ first-class lever ♦ golf-club matcher, GOLF-CLUB WEIGHER, gravity balance ♦ moment of force ♦ power arm ♦ RAILROAD-CAR-TRUCK BUILDER ♦ second-class lever, SPINNER, HAND, spinning-lathe operator, spragger ♦ third-class lever ♦ work arm ♦ Youth. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fulcrum": Fulcrate. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A German Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum from the 73rd Fighter Squadron, Laage Air Base, Germany, taxis out with a U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 355th FS, Aviano AB, Italy. The 555th is deployed here to learn how to fly against the MiG-29s. (Photo. |  | German Air Force Capt. Fred Schmidt, a MiG-29 Fulcrum pilot from the 73rd Fighter Squadron, Laage Air Base, Germany, de-briefs Maj. Andreas Zube (center) and U.S. Air Force Capts. Jeff Johnson and Chris Colcord, F-16 pilots. The U.S. pilots are deployed t. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Art, which is the conqueror, must have its fulcrum in science, which is the mover |
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Economic History | Vietnam | A number of American firms, such as Boeing Aircraft, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, and Fulcrum are active in Vietnam. (references) |
Political Economy | Georgia | Georgia is also a fulcrum for east-west energy pipelines, which will involve major U.S. private investment. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and clows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost! Polydore Smith Z |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
James Dobson | Well, you combine it with love. On the cover of my first book, I had a little fulcrum, triangle like that with a line going across with love on one side and control on the other. |
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| "Fulcrum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.48% of the time. "Fulcrum" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.48% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.35% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 2.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "fulcrum": fulcrum slide. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fulcrum | 114 | fulcrum mitchell rod | 3 |
mig 29 fulcrum | 26 | fulcrum investment | 3 |
fulcrum global partner | 18 | 2000 fulcrum | 3 |
fulcrum global | 8 | colours fulcrum | 3 |
fulcrum publishing | 8 | fulcrum mitchell | 3 |
fulcrum partner | 6 | fulcrum science search | 3 |
fulcrum lever | 6 | fulcrum microsystems | 2 |
fulcrum technology | 6 | associate fulcrum | 2 |
fulcrum insurance | 6 | financial fulcrum | 2 |
company fulcrum insurance | 4 | analyst fulcrum | 2 |
capital fulcrum | 4 | fulcrum research | 2 |
fulcrum group | 3 | fulcrum securities | 2 |
fulcrum global llc partner | 3 | fulcrum pharma | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "fulcrum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | strumbull, pikëmbështetje (foothold, footing, hold), bosht (Arista, axis, axle, axletree, bobbin, kingbolt, kingpin, pivot, shaft, spindle). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرتكز المخل, نقطة إرتكاز. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | точка на въртене, ос на въртене (pivot), опорна точка (pivot, purchase, strong point, supporting point, toehold). (various references) | |
Chinese | "点 (Fulcra, Fulcrums). (various references) | |
Czech | otoèný bod páky. (various references) | |
Danish | omdrejningspunkt (pivot, pivot point). (various references) | |
Dutch | steunpunt (abutment, bearing, pivot, pivot point, pulling down, support), draaipunt (center of gyration, centre of gyration). (various references) | |
Finnish | tukipiste (anchor point, pivot, pivot point), nivelen tappi, napa (hub, nave, navel, pole). (various references) | |
French | pivot. (various references) | |
German | stützpunkt (base, stronghold), Drehpunkt (centre of rotation, pivot, spindle). (various references) | |
Greek | υπομόχλιο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ח"ו" (blade, cusp, prick, quip), סמך (support), קו"ת משען. (various references) | |
Hungarian | forgáspont (centre of motion, prize), támaszpont (base, basis, beach-head, bridgehead, bridge-head, standing-ground). (various references) | |
Italian | fulcro (hub, pivot). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "点 , "点 , "柱 (brace, prop). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | して" (branch store, dead point, opinion, point of view, visual point), しちゅう (brace, fatal situation, in the city, larva, prop). (various references) | |
Korean | 지 받침 (Fulcra, Fulcrums). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulcrumfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fulcro (pivot, pivot point). (various references) | |
Romanian | reazem (column, pad, prop, stay, support, tower), punct de sprijin (hold, lever). (various references) | |
Russian | точка опоры (foothold, pivot, purchase, toehold). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tačka oslonca. (various references) | |
Spanish | fulcro (pivot, pivot point). (various references) | |
Swedish | vridningspunkt (pivot, pivot point), vridcentrum, stödpunkt (pivot, pivot point), stödjepunkt (abutment, base, key point). (various references) | |
Turkish | destek noktası, dayanma noktası, dayanak (abutment, anchorage, base, ground, hinge, Mount, pivot, prop, rest, shore, support). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | центр обертання, точка опори (pivot, purchase, toehold), поворотний (climacteric, rotating, rotatory, swinging, tilting). (various references) | |
Welsh | ffwlcrwm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fulchra. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fulcrum": fulcrums. (additional references) | |
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"Fulcrum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: folcrum, Fuckum, fulchrum, fulcurm, fulerum, fulkrum, Fulsarium, pulchrum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fulcrum" (pronounced fuh"lkrum) |
| 3 | -r u m | angstrom, arum, Aurum, pilgrim, quorum, conundrum, decorum, durum, forum, harem, maelstrom, rostrum, serum, spectrum, tantrum, theorem. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-l-m-r-u-u" | |
-3 letters: culm, curf, curl, furl. | |
-4 letters: cum, cur, flu, fur, lum, rum, ulu. | |
-5 letters: mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-l-m-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: fulcrums, furculum. | |
+3 letters: cumuliform, unmerciful. | |
+5 letters: circumfluent, circumfluous, unmercifully. | |
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