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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.
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(by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
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Act of turning on one foot.
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The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
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A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
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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.
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A pivot table.
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Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
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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.
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A quarterback.
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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.