pivot

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “The weight of the body and the traction and braking forces are taken by the conventional dished bogie centre pivot with phosphor-bronze liner; this type of centre pivot facilitates passage over marshalling yard humps.”

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

   “Sandy Weill was the man who stitched Citigroup together in the 1990s and in the process helped bury the Glass-Steagall act, a Depression-era law separating retail and investment banking. Last month he performed a perfect pivot: he now wants regulators to undo his previous work.”

3. isim Act of turning on one foot.
4. isim The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
5. isim A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
6. isim 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. isim A pivot table.
8. isim Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
9. isim 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.
10. isim A pivotal quantity.
11. isim A quarterback.
12. isim A circle runner.
13. isim 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.
14. fiil To turn on an exact spot.
15. fiil To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.

    “Mr. Shah’s new business has signed up 25 New York City hotels and raised $1.5 million from angel investors and $3 million from a seed round. Yet three months into his new project, he has had to pivot again, realizing that his best customers are large businesses, not individuals.”

16. fiil To shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.