A fulcrum is the support about which a
lever
A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or ''fulcrum''. A lever is a rigid body capable of rotating on a point on itself. On the basis of the locations of fulcrum, load and effort, the lever is div ...
pivots.
Fulcrum may also refer to:
Companies and organizations
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Fulcrum (Anglican think tank), a Church of England think tank
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Fulcrum Press, a British publisher of poetry
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Fulcrum Wheels, a bicycle wheel manufacturer in Italy
Entertainment
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''Fulcrum'' (annual), a United States literary periodical
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Fulcrum (''Chuck''), the enemy spy organization on the TV series ''Chuck''
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''Fulcrum'' (newspaper), a student newspaper at the University of Ottawa
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''Fulcrum'' (sculpture), a 1987 sculpture in London by Richard Serra
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The Fulcrum (comics)
The Celestials are fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Depicted as cosmic beings, the characters debuted in the Bronze Age of Comic Books and have reappeared on numerous occasions.
The Celestials a ...
, a supreme being in the Marvel Comics universe
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Ahsoka Tano
Ahsoka Tano is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. Introduced as the Jedi Padawan of Anakin Skywalker, she is a supporting character in the animated film '' Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' (2008) and the subsequent animated telev ...
, a character in the animated series ''Star Wars Rebels'' who uses the alias Fulcrum
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Agent Alexsandr Kallus, a character from the same series who took the alias Fulcrum after Ahsoka Tano.
Other
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Fulcrum (Antarctica), a geological formation in Antarctica
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Fulcrum (drumming) {{Unreferenced, date=March 2009
Fulcrum is a drumming term. Traditionally, the fulcrum is said to denote the part of a percussionist's grip that is the main lever for the drumstick/mallet to rotate. This is usually created by the thumb + index fi ...
, part of a percussionist's grip
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Fulcrum weeder, a garden tool
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Mikoyan MiG-29, NATO reporting name "Fulcrum", a Soviet fighter aircraft
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Operation Fulcrum
The United States's Fulcrum nuclear test series was a group of 21 nuclear tests conducted in 1976–1977. These tests A bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual expl ...
, a series of United States nuclear weapons tests in 1976-1977
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