fulcrum

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfʊlkɹəm/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfʌlkɹəm/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈfʊlkɹəm/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈfɐlkɹəm/
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• Northern-England: /ˈfʊlkɹəm/
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• Scotland: /ˈfʉlkɾəm/
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• Scotland: /ˈfʌlkɾəm/
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• Wales: /ˈfʊlkɾəm/
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• Wales: /ˈfʌlkɾəm/
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• Northern-Ireland: /ˈfʉlkɹəm/
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• Northern-Ireland: /ˈfʌlkɹəm/
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• CMU ARPABET: F UH1 L K R AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin fulcrum (“bedpost, foot of a couch”), from fulciō (“prop up, support”).

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: հենակետ (henaket) — support about which a lever pivots
• Belarusian: кропка апоры (krópka apóry) — support about which a lever pivots
• Bulgarian: опорна точка (oporna točka) — support about which a lever pivots
• Catalan: fulcre — support about which a lever pivots
• Chinese Mandarin: 支點 /支点 (zhīdiǎn) — support about which a lever pivots
• Czech: opěrný bod — support about which a lever pivots
• Czech: opora — support about which a lever pivots
• Czech: střed otáčení — support about which a lever pivots
• Danish: understøttelsespunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• Dutch: draaipunt — support about which a lever pivots
• Dutch: steunpunt — support about which a lever pivots
• Esperanto: apogpunkto — support about which a lever pivots
• Finnish: tukipiste — support about which a lever pivots
• French: point d'appui — support about which a lever pivots
• Galician: pinze — support about which a lever pivots
• Galician: forra — support about which a lever pivots
• German: Angelpunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• German: Drehpunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• German: Hebelstützpunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• German: Lager — support about which a lever pivots
• German: Drehachse — support about which a lever pivots
• German: Stützpunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• German: Gelenkpunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• German: Stütze — support about which a lever pivots
• Greek: υπομόχλιο (ypomóchlio) — support about which a lever pivots
• Ancient Greek: ὑπομόχλιον (hupomókhlion) — support about which a lever pivots
• Hungarian: forgáspont — support about which a lever pivots
• Hungarian: forgástengely — support about which a lever pivots
• Ido: apog-punto — support about which a lever pivots
• Ido: pivoto — support about which a lever pivots
• Indonesian: fulkrum — support about which a lever pivots
• Indonesian: titik tumpu — support about which a lever pivots
• Irish: borradh — support about which a lever pivots
• Irish: buthal — support about which a lever pivots
• Italian: fulcro — support about which a lever pivots
• Japanese: 支点 (shiten) — support about which a lever pivots
• Kazakh: тірек нүктесі (tırek nüktesı) — support about which a lever pivots
• Latin: fulcrum — support about which a lever pivots
• Macedonian: ослонец (oslonec) — support about which a lever pivots
• Malay: sangga tuas — support about which a lever pivots
• Malay: fulkrum — support about which a lever pivots
• Māori: kaurori — support about which a lever pivots
• Norwegian: dreiepunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• Norwegian: dreiningspunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• Norwegian: hvilepunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• Norwegian: omdreiningspunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• Persian: تکیهگاه — support about which a lever pivots
• Polish: punkt podparcia — support about which a lever pivots
• Portuguese: fulcro — support about which a lever pivots
• Portuguese: ponto de apoio — support about which a lever pivots
• Romanian: punct de sprijin — support about which a lever pivots
• Russian: то́чка опо́ры (tóčka opóry) — support about which a lever pivots
• Serbo-Croatian: uporište — support about which a lever pivots
• Spanish: pivote — support about which a lever pivots
• Spanish: punto de apoyo — support about which a lever pivots
• Spanish: fulcro — support about which a lever pivots
• Spanish: hipomoclio — support about which a lever pivots
• Swedish: rotationspunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• Swedish: ledpunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• Swedish: vridningspunkt — support about which a lever pivots
• Telugu: ఆధారము (ādhāramu) — support about which a lever pivots
• Turkish: destek — support about which a lever pivots
• Ukrainian: точка опори (točka opory) — support about which a lever pivots
• Welsh: ffwlcrwm — support about which a lever pivots
• Welsh: pwysbwynt — support about which a lever pivots
• German: Dreh- und Angelpunkt — a crux or pivot; a central point
• Polish: sedno — a crux or pivot; a central point
• Spanish: pivote — a crux or pivot; a central point