Word Finder - pivot

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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.

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To turn on an exact spot.

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To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.

A circular revolving platform rests on the pivot and rollers.

The pivot of this part is the logical principle of contradiction.

Using your knees as a pivot point, lower your upper body towards the floor.

Using your elbows as a pivot point, move your hands away from your body until you feel a stretch in the shoulder.

Records of experiments on the friction of a pivot bearing will be found in the Proc. Inst.

It consisted simply of a light metallic needle balanced on a pivot like a compass needle.

The moment of friction of Schieles anti-friction pivot, as it is called, is equal to that of a cylindrical journal of the radius OR=PT the constant tangent, under the same pressure.

This is common sense body physics and if you've played any sports that keep you mobile (basketball, volleyball) you tend to move your hips, torso, and pivot on your feet.

Two pivot joints join it to the radius, one near the elbow, one near the wrist.

Keep your weight on this foot and pivot half a turn to your right, transferring the weight to your right foot.

In this exercise, make sure your elbows remain stationary and only serve as a pivot.

Now, use your elbow as a pivot and slowly extend the weight all the way back until your arm is fully extended.

Using your elbows as a pivot and keeping your upper arms tucked into the sides of your head, lower the dumbbell behind your head and then extend the weight to the ceiling again.

In the first the load can be lifted vertically, and then moved round a central pivot, so as to be deposited at any convenient point within the range.

If the light exerted direct impulsion on the vanes, their motion would gradually drag the case round after them, by reason of the friction of the residual air in the bulb and of the pivot.

It consists of five principal parts - the card, the needles, the bowl, a jewelled cap and the pivot.

One pivot of the polar axis is attached to the lower end of this box, and a strong hollow metal cone, terminating in the other pivot, forms the upper part of the polar axis.

The moment of friction of this pivot is at first almost C, inappreciable from the extreme smallness of the T radius of the circles of contact of the ball and cups, but, as they wear, that radius and the moment of friction increase.

On the 27th the Bulgarian wheel began, but instead of its being carried out on a fixed pivot, the pivot itself was allowed to advance eastward, so that, instead of presenting a united line, the Bulgarians formed a loose echelon, left in advance, which led to successive instead of simultaneous engagements.

As the earth revolves from west to east the celestial sphere appears to us to revolve in the opposite direction, turning on the line j oining the Celestial Poles as on a pivot.

The iris diaphragm can be regulated by the lever p; it can also be turned to one side round the pivot z, so that the condenser k can be removed or changed.

All the pivot bearings are well tucked away and carry a 10-year guarantee.

The origin is an unstable equilibrium corresponding to the vertical position above the pivot.

They all have a fulcrum (pivot ), a load and an effort.

An iron pivot for a single leaf door survived in the east jamb.

If you do not have adjustable pitch oarlocks, you will need to set the pitch with the pivot pin.

It is the body, which remains the central pivot of the process.

The helve, or main beam of the hammer, rotates freely about the fixed pivot.

The first design I tried was a single pivot like the orange 223 which I built out of a wagon exhaust it was heavy!

So you draw the first quarter, then pivot the same pattern round the center to get the second quarter.

Visually check frames, pivot points, motor mountings, castors, torque tubes, motor drives spigots, and all other parts.

When guarding the thrower, the marker may not straddle the pivot foot of the thrower.

The microphone is bendable and can pivot from eye to chin if needed.

Brush kick your right foot, pivot on your left foot, and make a quarter turn to the left side.

It's very important to remain straight from the torso down, allowing only the upper portion of your body to pivot.

For instance, on ElectricRazorsPro.com, the Remington F4790 Pivot and Flex Men’s Foil Shaver are the top picks.

It gives a super close shave and uses two flexing foils that pivot to reach the hardest to reach spots.

A high density polyurethane pivot point allows for 360-degree movement while the air-cushioned heel allows for maximum shock absorption and comfort.

His upper body twisted, his foot remained planted and he essentially neglected to pivot properly.

There are also pivot points in the forefoot and heel to help with a full range of transitions.

Marcy exercise equipment offers a couple step machines including its Impex MS-100 Pivot Multi Directional Stepper and Marcy MS-101 Hers Elite Pivot Stepper.

He became a pivot point for several key events, including planning the Krikkit robots' military strategy and solving all the problems of the universe, except his own.

Here the crane-post is extended into a long mast and is furnished with pivots at the top and bottom; the mast is supported by two " back ties," and these are connected to the socket of the bottom pivot by the " sleepers."

This hook swings on the pivot B, and has an arm which extends backwards, practically at right angles with the working face of the hook, FIG.

It was probably in Paris, the chief intellectual centre of his time, that Neckam heard how a ship, among its other stores, must have a needle placed above a magnet (the De utensilibus assumes a needle mounted on a pivot), which needle would revolve until its point looked north, and thus guide sailors in murky weather or on starless nights.

The whole of the Southern army in the west swung round on its left wing as the pivot, and Buell only just reached Louisville before his opponent.

To obviate this the cunning workman devised a circular table, turning on a pivot, with seats affixed, at which the guests sat the one half in turn within, the other without, the hall "man against man."

Da Buti, the Dante commentator, in 1380 says the sailors use a compass at the middle of which is pivoted a wheel of light paper to turn on its pivot, on which wheel the needle is fixed and the star (wind-rose) painted.

If then the objective tube is directed to any star, the convergent beam from the object-glass is received by the plane mirror from which it is reflected upwards along the polar axis and viewed through the hollow upper pivot.

The friction of a conical pivot exceeds that of a flat pivot of the same radius, and under the same pressure, in the proportion of the side of the cone to the radius of its base.