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pivot
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot, penis”) (12 c.), of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?v?t/
- Rhymes: -?v?t
Noun
pivot (plural pivots)
- 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.
- (figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
- Act of turning on one foot.
- 2012, Banking reform: Sticking together, The Economist, 18th August issue
- Sandy Weill was the man who stitched Citigroup together in the 1990s and in the process helped bury the Glass-Steagall act, a Depression-era law separating retail and investment banking. Last month he performed a perfect pivot: he now wants regulators to undo his previous work.
- 2012, Banking reform: Sticking together, The Economist, 18th August issue
- (military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
- (roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
- (computing) 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.
- (computing) A pivot table.
- (graphical user interface) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
- (mathematics) 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.
- (Canadian football) A quarterback.
- (US, politics) A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
Derived terms
- pivot bridge
- pivot gun
- pivot point
- pivot tooth
Translations
See also
- fulcrum
- pivotal
Verb
pivot (third-person singular simple present pivots, present participle pivoting, simple past and past participle pivoted)
- (intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.
- To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.
- (business slang) To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.
- (US, politics) To shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
- (business slang) To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.
Translations
Finnish
Noun
pivot
- Nominative plural form of pivo.
French
Etymology
From Old French pivot, of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.vo/
Noun
pivot m (plural pivots)
- pivot
- fulcrum
- lynchpin
- (basketball) center
- Pivot (basket-ball) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- (botany) taproot
Derived terms
- pivotant
- pivotement
- pivoter
- pivoteur
Further reading
- “pivot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch pivot, from French pivot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?piv?t??]
- Hyphenation: pi?vot
Noun
pivot (plural pivot-pivot, first-person possessive pivotku, second-person possessive pivotmu, third-person possessive pivotnya)
- pivot.
- Synonyms: putaran, poros, inti
Verb
pivot
- to pivot.
Further reading
- “pivot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Romanian
Etymology
From French pivot.
Noun
pivot n (plural pivoturi)
- pivot
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From English pivot.
Noun
pivot m (plural pivots)
- (basketball) pivot
pivot From the web:
- what pivot means
- what pivot table
- what pivots
- what pivot table in excel
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- what pivot means in spanish
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axes
English
Etymology 1
ax +? -es, axe +? -s
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: ?k's?z, ?k's?z, IPA(key): /?æks?z/, /?æks?z/
Noun
axes
- plural of ax
- plural of axe
Etymology 2
ax +? -es, axe +? -s
Verb
axes
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ax (all etymologies and senses)
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of axe (all etymologies and senses)
Etymology 3
From Latin ax?s
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ?k's?z, IPA(key): /?æksi?z/
- (US) enPR: ?k's?z, IPA(key): /?æksiz/
Noun
axes
- plural of axis
Anagrams
- Saxe, Seax, seax, sexa-
French
Verb
axes
- second-person singular present indicative of axer
- second-person singular present subjunctive of axer
Anagrams
- Saxe
Latin
Noun
ax?s
- nominative plural of axis
- accusative plural of axis
- vocative plural of axis
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
axes
- plural of ax (“axe”)
Etymology 2
Noun
axes
- plural of ax (“axle”)
axes From the web:
- what axis does the independent variable go on
- what axis is the independent variable
- what axes are good for throwing
- what axis does time go on
- what axes are used in timbersports
- what axis is domain
- what axis is the dependent variable
- what axis goes first
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