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What is a mechanical advantage?

What is a mechanical advantage? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The ratio of the output force produced by a machine (especially a simple machine) to the applied input force.
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The mechanical advantage, which we shall call simply the advantage, is the ratio of the load to the effort.
Many early fire-makers learned to further improve the fire-drill by adding mechanical advantage to the technique.
The federation is expected to rule that Pistorius is ineligible because he has a mechanical advantage.
The patella is the largest sesamoid bone in the body and provides increased mechanical advantage for knee extension.
We need the mechanical advantage, or torque multiplication, that gearing provides in order to move the mass of our vehicles.
The ideal mechanical advantage of a compound machine is the product of the ideal mechanical advantages of its components.

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