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

lever A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam (structure), beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or '':wikt:fulcrum, fulcrum''. A lever is a rigid body capable of rotating on a point on itself. On the basis of the locations of fulcrum, l ...

system *More generally, the center point of any

rotation Rotation or rotational/rotary motion is the circular movement of an object around a central line, known as an ''axis of rotation''. A plane figure can rotate in either a clockwise or counterclockwise sense around a perpendicular axis intersect ...

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 ...

, 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. Pivot was founded in 2001 with a stated goal to represent and defend the interests of marginalized communities affected by poverty an ...

, 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 Nextel and multiple cable companies. Overview Using Pivot, customers were able to access their cable TV guide, email service and watch many national channels using t ...

, 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 Pivot is a software application from Microsoft Live Labs that allows users to interact with and search large amounts of data. It is based on Microsoft's Seadragon. It has been described as allowing users to view the web as a web rather than as i ...

, a data search application *Morrow Pivot and

Morrow Pivot II The Pivot is a family of early IBM PC–compatible portable computers first released in 1984 by Morrow Designs, a company founded by George Morrow. It was the first lunchbox-style portable computer, with a vertically configured case that has a ...

, 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 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 describe ...

, a display which can change orientation * Pivot Stickfigure Animator, stick-figure animation software *

Pivot table A pivot table is a table of values which are aggregations of groups of individual values from a more extensive table (such as from a database, spreadsheet, or business intelligence program) within one or more discrete categories. The aggregatio ...

, a data summarization tool in spreadsheets *

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

, a former UK video game developer *Pivoting, a

computer security exploit An exploit is a method or piece of code that takes advantage of Vulnerability (computer security), vulnerabilities in software, Application software, applications, Computer network, networks, operating systems, or Computer hardware, hardware, typic ...

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 translate ...

, 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 usual ...

, 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 need not be a ...

, in statistics

Music

*Pivot, the former name of the experimental rock band PVT * ''Pivot'' (album), by Amoeba *

Pivot chord Pivot may refer to: *Pivot, the point of rotation in a lever system *More generally, the center point of any rotational system *Pivot joint, a kind of joint between bones in the body *Pivot turn, a dance move Companies *Incitec Pivot, an Austra ...

, 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-Antarct ...

, 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 The Wilkniss Mountains () form a prominent group of conical peaks and mountains, long running north–south, located east-southeast of Mount Feather in the Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The mountains are wide in the north ...

, the highest point in Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land

Sports

*Pivot, a player position in

futsal Futsal is a variant of association football played between two teams of five players each on a court smaller than a football pitch. Its rules are based on the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game of association football, and i ...

*Pivot, a player position in

roller derby Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leaguesA Roller Derby league is synonymous with an individual club or team in other team sports, as ...

*Pivot, a player position in

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

*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 13 players on the field, with 4 interchange players on the bench. Each of the 13 players is assigned a position, normally with a standardised number, which reflects their role in attack and defence, although playe ...

*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, the big or the pivot, is one of the five Basketball position, positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is almost always the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal ...

, a player position in basketball * Pivot turn (skiing), a technique of turning in place in skiing *In baseball, the action of a

second baseman In baseball and softball, second baseman, abbreviated 2B, is a fielding position in the Infielder, infield, between Baseball field#Second base, second and Baseball field#First base, first base. The second baseman often possesses quick hands and f ...

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 Le ...

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-dr ...

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 (cartoonist), André François. ''Pivot'', along with ''Alpha Blitz'', ''Go Wild! (card game), Go Wild!'', and ''Twitch (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'', ...

, or pivot word, a technique in Japanese poetry *

Bernard Pivot Bernard Pivot (; 5 May 1935 – 6 May 2024) was 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 on 5 May 1935, the son o ...

(1935–2024), French journalist * "

" by H.J. Mackinder *

Pivot (TV network) Pivot was an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by Participant Media that aired programming that focused on social issues and activism. The channel, targeted at young adults between 18 and 34 years old, debuted on A ...

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

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