Pivot

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
• Pivot Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer

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, now PivotX, a content management system designed for bloggers
• 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 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 (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

• 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 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 (futsal), a player position in futsal
• Pivot or center (basketball), a player position in basketball
• Pivot turn (skiing), a technique of turning in place in skiing

Other uses

• Pivot, a 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 (born 1935), French journalist
• "The Geographical Pivot of History" by H.J. Mackinder
• Pivot (TV network), an American digital cable and satellite television network
• USS Pivot