pivot

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.

   Drehpunkt, Angelpunkt, Zapfen

   сте́рженьstérženʹ, штырьštyrʹ, центр враще́нияcentr vraščénija

   стри́женьstrýženʹ, шпеньšpenʹ

   axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

2. (broadly, figuratively)Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.

   Angelpunkt

   гла́вный пунктglávnyj punkt, ключево́й моме́нтključevój momént

3. Act of turning on one foot.

   the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot

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 pivotal quantity.

11. (Canadian)A quarterback.

12. A circle runner.

1. Two big pivot guns throw eleven inch shells.

   deZwei große Pivotgeschütze feuern 28 cm-Granaten.

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2. Algeria is pivoting its economy away from hydrocarbons.

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3. Algeria needs to pivot its economy away from oil and gas.

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4. 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.

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5. Whatever you do, do not fire the pivot-gun!

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