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How to pronounce “pivot”
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Pronunciation guide for pivot
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of pivot with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One
That "PIVOT," and our jobs, and the economy,
- Definition summary
- A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
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How to pronounce pivot
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One
That "PIVOT," and our jobs, and the economy,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “pivot”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
- (figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
- Act of turning on one foot.
- (military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
- (roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
- (programming) An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
- (computing) A pivot table.
- (graphical user interface) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
- (mathematics) An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
- (statistics) A pivotal quantity.
- (Canadian football) A quarterback.
- (handball) A circle runner.
- (US, politics) A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.
- To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.
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