What do you understand by the term moment of force?

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The moment of a force on a body about a point or an axis of rotation is the turning effect of the force on the body, about the point or the axis of rotation or the axis of rotation.
It is equal to the product of force and the perpendicular distance between force and axis of rotation.

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