mechanical advantage

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   the ratio of the force exerted by a machine to the force applied to it

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Questions about mechanical advantage

What does mechanical advantage mean?

mechanical advantage means "the ratio of the force exerted by a machine to the force applied to it".

Is mechanical advantage a common word?

mechanical advantage 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.