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pivot
noun
pivot—a central point or person on which something turns or depends
/ˈpɪv.ɪt/, /ˈpɪv.ət/
Origin
From Middle English pevet, *pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot”) (12th c.), possibly from Latin pūgiō.
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.“The weight of the body and the traction and braking forces are taken by the conventional dished bogie centre pivot with phosphor-bronze liner; this type of centre pivot facilitates passage over marsha”
- broadly, figurativelySomething or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.““The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately atta”
- Act of turning on one foot.“Sandy Weill was the man who stitched Citigroup together in the 1990s and in the process helped bury the Glass-Steagall act, a Depression-era law separating retail and investment banking. Last month he”
- 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 pivotal quantity.
- CanadianA quarterback.
- A circle runner.
- USA shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
verb
- intransitiveTo turn on an exact spot.
- slangTo change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.“Mr. Shah’s new business has signed up 25 New York City hotels and raised $1.5 million from angel investors and $3 million from a seed round. Yet three months into his new project, he has had to pivot ”““Entrepreneurs usually have some inkling about a problem they can solve,” he said. “But typically they’re not exactly right. So if you survive long enough, you pivot and pivot and pivot and find what ”“It was a fairly common strategy for startups in our space, but we were pivoting so frequently that it didn't quite work for us—if Nick found someone on Monday, by Friday we'd usually pivoted away from”
- USTo shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
Formspivots(plural) · pivots(present, singular, third-person) · pivoting(participle, present) · pivoted(participle, past) · pivoted(past)
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