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Pivot may refer to:
- Pivot, the point of rotation in a lever system
- More generally, the center point of any rotational system
- Pivot joint, a kind of joint between bones in the body
- Pivot turn, a dance move
Business
- Pivot, a method for developing businesses and products by changing direction, popularized by Eric Ries
Companies
- Incitec Pivot, an Australian chemicals and explosives manufacturer
- Pivot Legal Society, a legal advocacy organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Pivot Wireless, a cell phone service, created by a joint venture between Sprint and multiple cable companies
Computing
- Apache Pivot, an open-source platform for building applications in Java
- Microsoft Live Labs Pivot, a data search application
- Morrow Pivot and Morrow Pivot II, early laptop computers
- Pivot, an element of the quicksort algorithm.
- Pivot, now PivotX, a content management system designed for bloggers
- Pivot display, a display which can change orientation
- Pivot Stickfigure Animator, stick-figure animation software
- Pivot table, a data summarization tool in spreadsheets
- Pivotal Games, a former UK video game developer
- Pivoting, a method used by hackers to use a compromised computer for attacks
Finance
- Pivot point (stock market), a price point in the financial, commodity, and securities markets
Games
- Pivot (card game), a casual card game released by Wizards of the Coast in 1998
Linguistics
- Syntactic pivot, the argument of the verb around which the sentence revolves
- Pivot language, an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation
Literature
- Pivot word (kakekotoba), a technique in Japanese poetry
Mathematics
- Pivot element, a non-zero element of a matrix selected by an algorithm
- Pivotal quantity, in statistics
Music
- Pivot, the former name of the experimental rock band PVT
- Pivot (album), by Amoeba
- Pivot (U.S. band), an American rock band
- Pivot chord, a chord that is diatonic to more than one key or, in other words, is common to two keys
People
- Bernard Pivot (born 1935), French journalist
Places
- Mount Pivot, a mountain in the western part of the Shackleton Range
- Pivot Area or Heartland, the theme of The Geographical Pivot of History
- Pivot Peak, the highest point in Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land
Politics
- "The Geographical Pivot of History" by H.J. Mackinder
Sports
- Pivot, a player position in roller derby
- Pivot, a player position in team handball
- Pivot, another term for five-eighth, one of the rugby league positions
- Pivot, another term for fly-half, one of the rugby union positions
- Pivot (futsal), a player position in futsal
- Pivot or center (basketball), a player position in basketball
- Pivot turn (skiing), a technique of turning in place in skiing
Television
- Pivot (TV channel), an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by Participant Media that debuted on August 1, 2013