pivot
A thing on which something turnsA thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
» Two big pivot guns throw eleven inch shells.
Zwei große Pivotgeschütze feuern 28 cm-Granaten.
Meaning
13 sensesA thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
Drehpunkt, Angelpunkt, Zapfen
сте́рженьstérženʹ, штырьštyrʹ, центр враще́нияcentr vraščénija
стри́женьstrýženʹ, шпеньšpenʹ
axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
(broadly, figuratively)Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
Angelpunkt
гла́вный пунктglávnyj punkt, ключево́й моме́нтključevój momént
Act of turning on one foot.
the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot
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.
(Canadian)A quarterback.
A circle runner.
Examples
7 sentencesTwo big pivot guns throw eleven inch shells.
deZwei große Pivotgeschütze feuern 28 cm-Granaten.
Algeria is pivoting its economy away from hydrocarbons.
Algeria needs to pivot its economy away from oil and gas.
Pushing that button will make the object pivot around the y axis.
ruНажатие этой клавиши заставит объект повернуться вокруг оси y.
deDer Knopf da dreht das Objekt um die y-Achse.
Whatever you do, do not fire the pivot-gun!
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English pevet, *pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot”) (12th c.), pFrom Middle English pevet, *pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot”) (12th c.), possibly from Latin pūgiō.
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