Pivot may refer to: *Pivot, the point of rotation in a

lever A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or '' fulcrum''. A lever is a rigid body capable of rotating on a point on itself. On the basis of the locations of fulcrum, load and effort, the lever is d ...

system *More generally, the center point of any

rotation Rotation, or spin, is the circular movement of an object around a '' central axis''. A two-dimensional rotating object has only one possible central axis and can rotate in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. A three-dimensional ...

al system *

Pivot joint In animal anatomy, a pivot joint (trochoid joint, rotary joint or lateral ginglymus) is a type of synovial joint whose movement axis is parallel to the long axis of the proximal bone, which typically has a convex articular surface. According t ...

, a kind of joint between bones in the body *

Pivot turn In dance, a pivot turn (or simply pivot) is a general classification for dance turns in which the performer's body rotates about its vertical axis without traveling. The performer may be supported by one or both feet, which swivel in place during ...

, a dance move

Companies

Incitec Pivot Incitec Pivot Ltd. () is an Australian multinational corporation that manufactures fertiliser, explosives chemicals, and mining service. Incitec Pivot is the largest supplier of fertilisers in Australia; the largest supplier of explosives prod ...

, an Australian chemicals and explosives manufacturer *

Pivot Legal Society Pivot Legal Society is a legal advocacy organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia's Downtown Eastside The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is a list of neighbourhoods in Vancouver, neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. One of ...

, 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 Apache Pivot is an open-source software, open-source platform for building Rich web application, rich web applications in Java (programming language), Java or any Java Virtual Machine, JVM-compatible language. It is released under the Apache Lic ...

, an open-source platform for building applications in Java * Microsoft Live Labs Pivot, a data search application *Morrow Pivot and

Morrow Pivot II The Morrow Pivot II, released in May 1985, was a portable personal computer 100% compatible with IBM PC Software. It was designed by Norman Towson and Micheal Stolowitz, and manufactured by Morrow Designs - based on the Pivot designed by Vadem ...

, early laptop computers *Pivot, an element of the

quicksort Quicksort is an efficient, general-purpose sorting algorithm. Quicksort was developed by British computer scientist Tony Hoare in 1959 and published in 1961, it is still a commonly used algorithm for sorting. Overall, it is slightly faster than ...

algorithm *Pivot, now

PivotX PivotX is an open-source blog software written in PHP using either flat files or a database to store content. It uses the Smarty web template system and the TinyMCE editor. One installation can handle several blogs, each with its own configur ...

, a content management system designed for bloggers *

Pivot display Page orientation is the way in which a rectangular page is oriented for normal viewing. The two most common types of orientation are ''portrait'' and ''landscape''. The term "portrait orientation" comes from visual art terminology and describes ...

, a display which can change orientation *

Pivot Stickfigure Animator Pivot Animator (formerly Pivot Stickfigure Animator and usually shortened to Pivot) is a freeware application that allows users to create stick-figure and sprite animations, and save them in the animated GIF format for use on web pages and the A ...

, stick-figure animation software *

Pivot table A pivot table is a table of grouped values that aggregates the individual items of a more extensive table (such as from a database, spreadsheet, or business intelligence program) within one or more discrete categories. This summary might include ...

, a data summarization tool in spreadsheets *

Pivotal Games Pivotal Games Limited was a British video game developer based in Corston, England. History Pivotal Games was founded in March 2000, by fifteen employees formerly of Pumpkin Studios (the developer of ''Warzone 2100''), led by Jim Bambra, Ni ...

, a former UK video game developer *Pivoting, a

computer security exploit An exploit (from the English verb ''to exploit'', meaning "to use something to one’s own advantage") is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or a sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability to cause unintended or unanti ...

used by hackers to use a compromised computer for attacks

Linguistics

Syntactic pivot {{Linguistic_typology_topics The syntactic pivot is the verb argument around which sentences "revolve" in a given language. This usually means the following: *If the verb has more than zero arguments, then one argument is the syntactic pivot. *I ...

, the argument of the verb around which the sentence revolves *

Pivot language A pivot language, sometimes also called a bridge language, is an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation between many different languages – to translate between any pair of languages A and B, one translates ...

, an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation

Mathematics

Pivot element The pivot or pivot element is the element of a matrix, or an array, which is selected first by an algorithm (e.g. Gaussian elimination, simplex algorithm, etc.), to do certain calculations. In the case of matrix algorithms, a pivot entry is usuall ...

, a non-zero element of a matrix selected by an algorithm *

Pivotal quantity In statistics, a pivotal quantity or pivot is a function of observations and unobservable parameters such that the function's probability distribution does not depend on the unknown parameters (including nuisance parameters). A pivot quantity need ...

, in statistics

Music

* Pivot (U.S. band), an American rock band *Pivot, the former name of the experimental rock band PVT * ''Pivot'' (album), by Amoeba *

Pivot chord A common chord, in the theory of harmony, is a chord that is diatonic to more than one key or, in other words, is ''common'' to (shared by) two keys. A "common chord" may also be defined simply as a triadic chord (e.g., C–E–G), as one of th ...

, 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 "The Geographical Pivot of History" is an article submitted by Halford John Mackinder in 1904 to the Royal Geographical Society that advances his heartland theory.Mackinder, H. J."The Geographical Pivot of History" ''The Geographical Journal'', ...

'' *

Pivot Peak Pivot Peak () is a prominent conical peak, 2,470 m, distinguished by a large northeast cirque and as the highest point in Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land. The New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition ...

, the highest point in Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land

Sports

*Pivot, a player position in

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...

*Pivot, a player position in

roller derby Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played by two teams of fifteen members. Roller derby is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues worldwide, mostly in the United States. Game play consists of a series of short scrimmages (jam ...

*Pivot, a player position in

team handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

*Pivot, another term for

five-eighth Five-eighth or Stand-off is one of the positions in a rugby league football team. Wearing jersey number 6, this player is one of the two half backs in a team, partnering the . Sometimes known as the pivot or second receiver, in a traditional a ...

, one of the

rugby league positions A rugby league team consists of thirteen players on the field, with 4 substitutes on the bench. Each of the thirteen players is assigned a position, normally with a standardised number, which reflects their role in attack and defence, although pl ...

*Pivot, another term for fly-half, one of the

rugby union positions In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards (wearing jerseys numbered 1–8) and seven backs (numbered 9–15). In addition, there may be up to eight replacement players "on the bench", numbered 16– ...

*Pivot or

center (basketball) The center (C), or the centre, also known as the five or the pivot, is one of the five Basketball position, positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength an ...

, 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 baseball and softball, a double play (denoted as DP in baseball statistics) is the act of making two outs during the same continuous play. Double plays can occur any time there is at least one baserunner and fewer than two outs. In Major Leag ...

in making the turn from catching to throwing

Other uses

*Pivot, a

lean startup Lean startup is a methodology for developing businesses and products that aims to shorten product development cycles and rapidly discover if a proposed business model is viable; this is achieved by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-dri ...

method for developing businesses and products by changing direction *

Pivot point (stock market) In financial markets, a pivot point is a price level that is used by traders as a possible indicator of market movement. A pivot point is calculated as an average of significant prices (high, low, close) from the performance of a market in the p ...

, 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 A or pivot word is a rhetorical device used in the Japanese poetic form waka. This trope uses the phonetic reading of a grouping of kanji (Chinese characters) to suggest several interpretations: first on the literal level (e.g. 松, ''matsu'', m ...

, or pivot word, a technique in Japanese poetry *

Bernard Pivot Bernard Pivot (; born 5 May 1935) is a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. He was chairman of the Académie Goncourt from 2014 to 2020. Biography Pivot was born in Lyon, the son of two grocers. During Worl ...

(born 1935), French journalist * "

" by H.J. Mackinder *

Pivot (TV network) Pivot was an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by Participant Media. The channel, targeted at young adults between 18 and 34 years old, debuted on August 1, 2013. The channel ceased operations on October 31, 2016. ...

, a defunct American digital cable and satellite television network * USS ''Pivot''

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