Definition of Leverages

1. Verb. (third-person singular of leverage) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leverages

1. leverage [v] - See also: leverage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leverages

levelnesses
levels
levels up
lever
lever action
lever arm
lever hang
lever lock
lever scale
lever tumbler
leverage
leverageable
leveraged
leveraged buy-out
leveraged buyout
leverages
leveraging
levered
levered firm
levered firms
leveret
leverets
levering
leverless
leverman
levermen
leverock
levers
leverwood
leverwoods

Literary usage of Leverages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. General Theory of Bridge Construction: Containing Demonstrations of the by Herman Haupt (1869)
"... e /.will be greater than upon AB in the proportion of AD to eD, because D is a fulcrum and AD and eD the leverages of the acting and resisting forces. ..."

2. Aeroplane Designing for Amateurs by Victor Lougheed (1912)
"AREAS AND Leverages The areas of control and stabilizing surfaces should be sufficient to produce the desired effects in sufficient quantitative values. ..."

3. First-year Mathematics for Secondary Schools by George William Myers, William Rockwell Wickes, Ernst Rudolf Breslich, Harris Franklin MacNeish, Ernest August Wreidt (1907)
"Turning-Tendencies (Leverages) A light bar (Fig. 37) supplied with equally spaced pegs, is balanced about its middle point, M. With a number of equal ..."

4. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1919)
"Therefore, by observing these velocities, we may determine the ratio of the leverages. The weight and the power are to each other, therefore, inversely as ..."

5. Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru by William Curtis Farabee (1922)
"... femur and its adequate control in that position is primarily dependent on the additional development of advantageous leverages in the ischium and pubes. ..."

6. Structural Steelwork: Relating Principally to the Construction of Steel by Ernest George Beck (1920)
"The /j still denotes the weight of a complete/1 stress-bundle, and the ,?j,rf2,rfs,. . . outside the brackets mean actual distances—the leverages at which ..."

7. New High School Algebra by Webster Wells, Walter Wilson Hart (1912)
"E. 50 pounds ; distance x feet. Where must E be placed so that the lever will balance ? CAB oEI Д. " SOLUTION : 1. The leverages are : A. 5x40 = 200. ..."

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