Pivot vs. Fulcrum
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
Fulcrumnoun
(mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.
Fulcrumnoun
(figurative) A crux or pivot; a central point.
Fulcrumnoun
A prop or support.
Fulcrumnoun
That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.
Fulcrumnoun
An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like.
Fulcrumnoun
The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.
Fulcrumnoun
The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.
Fulcrumnoun
the pivot about which a lever turns
