pivot

About 2.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. 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.
2. noun Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
3. noun Act of turning on one foot.
4. noun The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
5. noun A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
6. noun 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.
7. noun A pivot table.
8. noun Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.

Similar words

swivel pin pivot man linchpin hub fulcrum pole bolt hinge wire

Often followed by

of point on table and is in around to

Word family

pivotable pivoted pivoting pivots