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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 Australian chemicals and explosives manufacturer
Pivot Legal Society , a legal advocacy organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia
Pivot Wireless , a cell phone service, created by a joint venture between Sprint and multiple cable companies
Computing
Linguistics
Syntactic pivot , the argument of the verb around which the sentence revolves
Pivot language , an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation
Mathematics
Music
Pivot (U.S. band) , an American rock band
Pivot, the former name of the experimental rock band
PVT
Pivot (album) , by Amoeba
Pivot chord , a chord that is diatonic to more than one key or, in other words, is common to two keys
Places
Sports
Pivot, a player position in
futsal
Pivot, a player position in
roller derby
Pivot, a player position in
team handball
Pivot, another term for
five-eighth , one of the
rugby league positions
Pivot, another term for fly-half, one of the
rugby union positions
Pivot or
center (basketball) , a player position in basketball
Pivot turn (skiing) , a technique of turning in place in skiing
In baseball, the action of a
second baseman on an infield
double play in making the turn from catching to throwing
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term