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'''Pivot''' may refer to:
*Pivot, the point of rotation in a [[lever]] system
*More generally, the center point of any [[rotation]]al system
*[[Pivot joint]], a kind of joint between bones in the body
*[[Pivot turn]], a dance move

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==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==
*[[Apache Pivot]], an open-source platform for building applications in Java
*[[Microsoft Live Labs Pivot]], a data search application
*Morrow Pivot and [[Morrow Pivot II]], early laptop computers
*Pivot, an element of the [[quicksort]] algorithm
*[[Pivot display]], a display which can change orientation
*[[Pivot Stickfigure Animator]], stick-figure animation software
*[[Pivot table]], a data summarization tool in spreadsheets
*[[Pivotal Games]], a former UK video game developer
*Pivoting, a [[Exploit (computer security)#Pivoting|computer security exploit]] used by hackers to use a compromised computer for attacks

==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==
*[[Pivot element]], a non-zero element of a matrix selected by an algorithm
*[[Pivotal quantity]], in statistics

==Music==
*Pivot, the former name of the experimental rock band [[PVT (band)|PVT]]
*[[Pivot (album)|''Pivot'' (album)]], by Amoeba
*[[Common chord (music)|Pivot chord]], a chord that is diatonic to more than one key or, in other words, is ''common'' to two keys

==Places==
*[[Mount Pivot]], a mountain in the western part of the Shackleton Range
* Pivot Area or Heartland, the theme of ''[[The Geographical Pivot of History]]''
*[[Pivot Peak]], the highest point in Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land

==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#Slang|double play]] in making the turn from catching to throwing

==Other uses==
*Pivot, a [[Lean startup#Pivot|lean startup]] method for developing businesses and products by changing direction
*[[Pivot point (stock market)]], a price point in the financial, commodity, and securities markets
*[[Pivot (card game)]], a casual card game released by Wizards of the Coast in 1998
*[[Kakekotoba]], or pivot word, a technique in Japanese poetry
*[[Bernard Pivot]] (1935–2024), French journalist
* "[[The Geographical Pivot of History]]" by H.J. Mackinder
*[[Pivot (TV network)]], a defunct American digital cable and satellite television network
*[[USS Pivot|USS ''Pivot'']]

== See also ==
* [[List of railroad truck parts#Center pin|Center pin]]
* [[Pivotal (disambiguation)]]

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