pivot
Meaning of pivot
noun
- 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.
- (by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
- Act of turning on one foot.
- The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
- A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
- 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.
- A pivot table.
- Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
- 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.
- A quarterback.
- 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.
- To turn on an exact spot.
- To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.
Information about pivot
- The plural form of pivot is: pivots.
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CatalanHyphenation of pivot
pivot
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- pivot is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
pivot synonyms
Meaning pin:
Meaning swivel:
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