# Pivot

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**Pivot** may refer to:

- Pivot, the point of rotation in a [lever](/source/Lever) system
- More generally, the center point of any [rotational](/source/Rotation) system
- [Pivot joint](/source/Pivot_joint), a kind of joint between bones in the body
- [Pivot turn](/source/Pivot_turn), a dance move

## Companies

- [Incitec Pivot](/source/Incitec_Pivot), Australian chemicals and explosives manufacturer
- [Pivot (company)](/source/Pivot_(company)), former Australian chemicals and explosives manufacturer
- [Pivot Legal Society](/source/Pivot_Legal_Society), a legal advocacy organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia
- [Pivot Wireless](/source/Pivot_Wireless), a cell phone service, created by a joint venture between Sprint and multiple cable companies

## Computing

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

## Linguistics

- [Syntactic pivot](/source/Syntactic_pivot), the argument of the verb around which the sentence revolves
- [Pivot language](/source/Pivot_language), an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation

## Mathematics

- [Pivot element](/source/Pivot_element), a non-zero element of a matrix selected by an algorithm
- [Pivotal quantity](/source/Pivotal_quantity), in statistics

## Music

- Pivot, the former name of the experimental rock band [PVT](/source/PVT_(band))
- [*Pivot* (album)](/source/Pivot_(album)), by Amoeba
- [Pivot chord](/source/Common_chord_(music)), a chord that is diatonic to more than one key or, in other words, is *common* to two keys

## Places

- [Mount Pivot](/source/Mount_Pivot), a mountain in the western part of the Shackleton Range
- Pivot Area or Heartland, the theme of *[The Geographical Pivot of History](/source/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History)*
- [Pivot Peak](/source/Pivot_Peak), the highest point in Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land

## Sports

- Pivot, a player position in [futsal](/source/Futsal)
- Pivot, a player position in [roller derby](/source/Roller_derby)
- Pivot, a player position in [team handball](/source/Team_handball)
- Pivot, another term for [five-eighth](/source/Five-eighth), one of the [rugby league positions](/source/Rugby_league_positions)
- Pivot, another term for fly-half, one of the [rugby union positions](/source/Rugby_union_positions)
- Pivot or [center (basketball)](/source/Center_(basketball)), a player position in basketball
- [Pivot turn (skiing)](/source/Pivot_turn_(skiing)), a technique of turning in place in skiing
- In baseball, the action of a [second baseman](/source/Second_baseman) on an infield [double play](/source/Double_play#Slang) in making the turn from catching to throwing

## Other uses

- Pivot, a [lean startup](/source/Lean_startup#Pivot) method for developing businesses and products by changing direction
- [Pivot point (stock market)](/source/Pivot_point_(stock_market)), a price point in the financial, commodity, and securities markets
- [Pivot (card game)](/source/Pivot_(card_game)), a casual card game released by Wizards of the Coast in 1998
- [Kakekotoba](/source/Kakekotoba), or pivot word, a technique in Japanese poetry
- [Bernard Pivot](/source/Bernard_Pivot) (1935–2024), French journalist
- "[The Geographical Pivot of History](/source/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History)" by H.J. Mackinder
- [Pivot (TV network)](/source/Pivot_(TV_network)), a defunct American digital cable and satellite television network
- [USS *Pivot*](/source/USS_Pivot)
- [Center-pivot irrigation](/source/Center-pivot_irrigation), a method of crop irrigation

## See also

- [Center pin](/source/List_of_railroad_truck_parts#Center_pin)
- [Pivotal (disambiguation)](/source/Pivotal_(disambiguation))

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