Noun

(en noun)

The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.

A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.

(computing) A computer networking device connecting several ethernet ports. See switch .

(surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.

A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.

(obsolete) The hilt of a weapon.

(Halliwell)

(US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.

a hub in the road

A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

A screw hob.

A block for scotching a wheel.

Noun

(en-noun)

(mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.

* It is possible to flick food across the table using your fork as a lever and your finger as a fulcrum .

* 2010 , , '' Bad Machinery

MILDRED: Archimedes said give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I will move the world.

CHARLOTTE: Yeah she said that twaddle eight or nine times.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

, author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= citation , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}