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MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ratio of the force exerted by a machine to the force applied to it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("mechanical advantage" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))