From en.wikipedia.org:
[pivot]
PIVOT may refer to:
- Pivot, the point of rotation in a lever system
- More generally, the center point of any rotation al system
- Pivot joint , a kind of joint between bones in the body
- Pivot turn , a dance move
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** Companies
- Incitec Pivot , an Australian chemicals and explosives manufacturer
- Pivot Legal Society , a legal advocacy organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Pivot Wireless , a cell phone service, created by a joint venture between Sprint and multiple cable companies
** Computing
- Apache Pivot , an open-source platform for building applications in Java
- Microsoft Live Labs Pivot , a data search application
- Morrow Pivot and Morrow Pivot II , early laptop computers
- Pivot, an element of the quicksort algorithm
- Pivot display , a display which can change orientation
- Pivot Stickfigure Animator , stick-figure animation software
- Pivot table , a data summarization tool in spreadsheets
- Pivotal Games , a former UK video game developer
- Pivoting, a computer security exploit used by hackers to use a compromised computer for attacks
** Linguistics
- Syntactic pivot , the argument of the verb around which the sentence revolves
- Pivot language , an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation
** Mathematics
- Pivot element , a non-zero element of a matrix selected by an algorithm
- Pivotal quantity , in statistics
** Music
- Pivot, the former name of the experimental rock band PVT
- _Pivot_ (album) , by Amoeba
- Pivot chord , a chord that is diatonic to more than one key or, in other words, is _common_ to two keys
** Places
- Mount Pivot , a mountain in the western part of the Shackleton Range
- Pivot Area or Heartland, the theme of _The Geographical Pivot of History_
- Pivot Peak , the highest point in Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land
** Sports
- Pivot, a player position in futsal
- Pivot, a player position in roller derby
- Pivot, a player position in team handball
- Pivot, another term for five-eighth , one of the rugby league positions
- Pivot, another term for fly-half, one of the rugby union positions
- Pivot or center (basketball) , a player position in basketball
- Pivot turn (skiing) , a technique of turning in place in skiing
- In baseball, the action of a second baseman on an infield double play in making the turn from catching to throwing
** Other uses
- Pivot, a lean startup method for developing businesses and products by changing direction
- Pivot point (stock market) , a price point in the financial, commodity, and securities markets
- Pivot (card game) , a casual card game released by Wizards of the Coast in 1998
- Kakekotoba , or pivot word, a technique in Japanese poetry
- Bernard Pivot (1935–2024), French journalist
- "The Geographical Pivot of History " by H.J. Mackinder
- Pivot (TV network) , a defunct American digital cable and satellite television network
- USS _Pivot_
** See also
- Center pin
- Pivotal (disambiguation)
[disambiguation]