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

, a kind of joint between bones in the body * Pivot turn, 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 neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. One of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, the ...

, a legal advocacy organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia *

Pivot Wireless Pivot Wireless was a cell phone service, created by a joint venture between Sprint and multiple cable companies. Using Pivot, customers were able to access their cable TV guide, email service and watch many national channels using the cell phone. C ...

, a cell phone service, created by a joint venture between Sprint and multiple cable companies

Computing

Apache Pivot Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich web applications in Java or any JVM-compatible language. It is released under the Apache License version 2.0. Architecture Its classes are divided in the following categories: * Core cl ...

, 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 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 configurat ...

, 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 AV ...

, 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 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, a non-zero element of a matrix selected by an algorithm * Pivotal quantity, in statistics

Music

Pivot (U.S. band) Pivot is a United States rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina featuring Brian Kelly on vocals, Eric Hambright on guitar, Mike Hambright on bass, and Phil Cicco on drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a ...

, an American rock band *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 Mount Pivot () is a conspicuous mountain, 1,095 m, with steep rock slopes on its west side, standing between Mount Haslop and Turnpike Bluff in the west part of the Shackleton Range. It was first mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic E ...

, a mountain in the western part of the Shackleton Range * Pivot Area or Heartland, the theme of '' The Geographical Pivot of History'' *

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 *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 *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) 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) The pivot turn or pivot is a technique of turning in place in skiing. The two types are the tail pivot and tip pivot. In the tail pivot, e.g., to the left, little turning steps are done to the left while keeping the tails of the skis A ski is ...

, 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 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) ''Pivot'' is a casual card game released by Wizards of the Coast in 1998. The game was designed by André François. ''Pivot'', along with ''Alpha Blitz'', ''Go Wild! (card game), Go Wild!'', and ''Twitch (card game), Twitch'', were part of a mov ...

, a casual card game released by Wizards of the Coast in 1998 * Kakekotoba, or pivot word, a technique in Japanese poetry * Bernard Pivot (born 1935), 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''