compound lever

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   a pair of levers hinged at the fulcrum

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Questions about compound lever

What does compound lever mean?

compound lever means "a pair of levers hinged at the fulcrum".

Is compound lever a common word?

compound lever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.