Definitions for fulcrums

fulcrums ful·crum

Spelling: [foo l-kruh m, fuhl-]
IPA: /ˈfʊl krəm, ˈfʌl-/

Fulcrums is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in fulcrums (cflmrsuu).

Definitions for fulcrums

noun

  1. the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body.
  2. any prop or support.
  3. Zoology. any of various structures in an animal serving as a hinge or support.

verb (used with object)

  1. to fit with a fulcrum; put a fulcrum on.

Origin of fulcrums

1665-75; Latin: back-support of a couch, apparently for fulctrum, equivalent to fulc(īre) to hold up, support + -trum noun suffix of instrument

Examples for fulcrums

I discovered that my soul had been using it daily as a kind of fulcrum for all things.

He had got a “fulcrum for his lever,” and he was not slow in using it.

Archimedes said he could lift the world with a lever if he had a fulcrum.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Put a spool over the nail which was your fulcrum in the first two experiments.

It is, for these two sons, both born in 1964, the fulcrum for their great labors.

The paper was, as Gleick writes, “a fulcrum around which the world began to turn.”

The lever of dissent has to be long, and the fulcrum—the immovable determination of the American president—has to be steady.

Less than 18 months after the 2012 election, the fulcrum of American politics rests once again in Central Florida.

Here's the heap of stone he used as a fulcrum for his lever.

Word Value for fulcrums
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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