MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mechanical advantage mean? 

• MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE (noun)
  The noun MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE (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))