Articulation vs. Pivot

Articulationnoun

A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.

Articulationnoun

(countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.

Articulationnoun

(uncountable) The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.

Articulationnoun

(linguistics) The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.

Articulationnoun

The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed).

Articulationnoun

(accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.

Articulationnoun

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

Articulationnoun

The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods.

Articulationnoun

The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint.

Articulationnoun

The state of being jointed; connection of parts.

Articulationnoun

The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.

Articulationnoun

A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.

Articulationnoun

the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech

Articulationnoun

the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made

Articulationnoun

expressing in coherent verbal form;

Articulationnoun

(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if the articulation allows motion)

Articulationnoun

the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible

Pivotnoun

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.

Pivotnoun

Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.

Pivotnoun

Act of turning on one foot.

Pivotnoun

(military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.

Pivotnoun

(roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.

Pivotnoun

(computing) 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.

Pivotnoun

(computing) A pivot table.

Pivotnoun

(GUI) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.

Pivotnoun

(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.

Pivotverb

(intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.

Pivotnoun

A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.

Pivotnoun

The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.

Pivotnoun

Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.

Pivotnoun

The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; - called also pivot man.

Pivotverb

To place on a pivot.

Pivotnoun

the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver

Pivotnoun

axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

Pivotnoun

the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot;

Pivotverb

turn on a pivot

Pivotnoun

the central point, pin, or shaft on which a mechanism turns or oscillates.

Pivotnoun

a person or thing that plays a central part in a situation or enterprise

Pivotnoun

the person or position from which a body of troops takes its reference point when moving or changing course.

Pivotnoun

a player in a central position in a team sport.

Pivotnoun

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.

Pivotverb

turn on or as if on a pivot

Pivotverb

provide (a mechanism) with a pivot; fix (a mechanism) on a pivot.

Pivotverb

depend on