Noun:

धश्रय, धलंब, आधार,

fulcrum's Usage Examples:

The trucks or other receptacles containing the coal, 'c., are drawn upon the platform of the machine, and the pull of the load is transferred by a vertical rod at the left-hand end of the machine to the knife-edge on the short arm of the steelyard, whose fulcrum is carried on bearings in the frame.

fulcrum knife-edge, and X, Y the knife-edges on which the scales are hung.

When the wing ascends as shown at p, the air (fulcrum f) resists its upward passage, and forces the body (b) or its representative (w) slightly downwards.

The pair of beams are hung centrally by rods and hooks from knife-edges in the forked end of a strong beam, which is carried at its fulcrum by the top plate of the frame of the machine.

The balloon has no hold upon the air, and this consequently cannot be employed as a fulcrum for regulating its course.

4) a point in the steady mass b is used as the fulcrum for the short arm of a light-writing index.

Although the third order of lever is particularly inefficient when the fulcrum is rigid and immobile, it possesses singular advantages when these conditions are reversed, that is, when the fulcrum, as happens with the air, is elastic and yielding.

It consists of a steelyard mounted on a fulcrum; one arm carries at its extremity a heavy bob and pointer, the latter moving along a scale affixed to the stand and serving to indicate when the beam is in its standard position.

The power is represented by the wing, the fulcrum by the air, and the weight by the body of the flying animal.

In this form of lever the power is applied between the fulcrum and the weight to be raised.

Synonyms:

pivot, lever, pin,

Antonyms:

stiffen, unpin, unfasten, defeat,