the central point, pin, or shaft on which a mechanism turns or oscillates.
[usually in singular] a person or thing that plays a central part in a situation or enterprise:the pivot of community life was the chapel
the person or position from which a body of troops takes its reference point when moving or changing course.
(also pivotman) chiefly North American a player in a central position in a team sport.
Basketball a movement in which the player holding the ball may move in any direction with one foot, while keeping the other (the pivot foot) in contact with the floor.
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Universal
turn on or as if on a pivot:he swung round, pivoting on his heel
[with object] provide (a mechanism) with a pivot; fix (a mechanism) on a pivot: (as adjective pivoted)a pivoted bracket
(pivot on) depend on:the government’s reaction pivoted on the response of the Prime Minister
