pivot

Meaning

1. A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
2. Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
3. Act of turning on one foot.
4. The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
5. A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
6. An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
7. A pivot table.
8. Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
9. An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
10. A quarterback.
11. A circle runner.
12. A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.

key man

central figure

main part

vital point

coupling bolt

center pin

fixed pivot

king journal

pivot shaft

central pivot

Chungshu

main center

support trunnion

weigh bar shaft

axis of revolution

key position

main point

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɪv.ət/

Inherited from Middle English

pevet

In summary

From Middle English pevet, *pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot”) (12th c.), possibly from Latin pūgiō.

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