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What is a fulcrum?

What is a fulcrum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.
  2. (figuratively) A crux or pivot; a central point.
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By rotating the dial, the pivot point or the fulcrum of the brake lever moves in and out.
When they attacked, Parks was invariably the fulcrum, prompting and probing with his educated boot and exposing the Ospreys' frailty in midfield.
The event that forms Ararat's fulcrum is the 1915 attempted genocide of the Armenian people by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire.
The odd-looking wood ball acts as a fulcrum, transforming even a short handle into a powerful lever.
The king and his court, with the royal family and household at its centre, were the focus and fulcrum of English government and politics.
A perineum on which forceps are used may be thought of more like a mechanical fulcrum than a genital area.

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