moment of a couple

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   given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them

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Questions about moment of a couple

What does moment of a couple mean?

moment of a couple means "given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them".

Is moment of a couple a common word?

moment of a couple 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.