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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pivot \Piv"ot\, n. [F.; prob. akin to It piva pipe, F. pipe.
See {Pipe}.]
1. A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or
other body turns.
2. The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a
support; as the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
3. Hence figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on
which important results depend; as the pivot of an
enterprise.
4. (Mil.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his
place whike the company or line moves around him in
wheeling; -- called also {pivot man}.
{Pivot bridge}, a form of drawbridge in which one span,
called the pivot span, turns about a central vertical
axis.
{Pivot gun}, a gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage,
so as to turn in any direction.
{Pivot tooth} (Dentistry), an artificial crown attached to
the root of a natural tooth by a pin or peg.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pivot \Piv"ot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pivoted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Pivoting}.]
To place on a pivot. --Clarke.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
pivot
n 1: the person in a line around whom the others wheel and
maneuver [syn: {pivot man}]
2: a short shaft that supports something that turns [syn: {pin}]
v : turn on a pivot [syn: {swivel}]
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