I. noun
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■ NOUN
point
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When cutting, the saw is partially rested on its metal shoe, which acts as a pivot point .
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A system can only be stable if the center of gravity is under the pivot point .
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However, the bike gains adjustable rake and trail and an adjustable swingarm pivot point .
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In all these respects, a product mindset provides a pivot point for other vital ingredients of success.
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The rivet would have gone through the tang of the triangular-shaped blade and acted as a pivot point .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them became the pivot around which much of the Cold War revolved.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any friction at the hammer pivot will slow down the movement of the hammer, tending to make the action sluggish.
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Classification as a linking device or pivot .
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He was a great pivot man and developed a very good outside shot.
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It was at the pivot of the secondary system - the process of selection - that innovation apparently took place.
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New designs with foot pivots allow snow hikers to tackle almost any hill or valley.
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Secondly, the bounds provided by penalties can be used to prune the tree and avoid unnecessary pivots.
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The tableau is no longer primal feasible and one further pivot as shown. is required to achieve an optimal tableau in which.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
around
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The entire body of the dinosaur would have been pivoted around the hip girdle.
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When a glider is on the ground it does not pivot around its c.g. as it does in flight.
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Instead it pivots around the main wheel.
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The security cameras can automatically pivot to monitor the entire hallway.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But at some point history pivoted.
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Instead, she pivots, dribbles and lunges toward the basket again.
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She pivoted on her hands so that she was facing the other direction.
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She pivots again, and in two long strides she is down at the far end of the bench watching the play.
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The board will pivot round the skeg.
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The tableau is no longer optimal, so we must pivot in the x 1 -column to restore dual feasibility.
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They turn counter-clockwise by crossing one foot over another and pivoting, again and again.