0 a fixed point supporting something that turns or balances
2 to change your opinions, statements, decisions, etc. so that they are different to what they were before:
3 to avoid talking about something by talking about something else:
4 a fixed point supporting something which turns or balances, or a person or thing on which something else depends:
Boston was the pivot of his emotional and intellectual life.
Improved haemocompatibility, good washing and absence of pivots or permanent contacts, are all factors which lower the risk of microthrombogenesis and tissue overgrowth.
By commanding velocities with the same magnitude but opposite directions, the robot pivots about its axis.
The age-span chosen for pivots defines a main cohort which is ' sandwiched ' within a complex framework of layered family obligations.
The alternative account pivots mainly on the recollections of a handful of people out of the many who lived through the riots.
After a while, the child will recognize that certain open class words only occur with certain pivots.
There were solid plates between the pivots and the channel bottom.
There are two cohorts of grandparents within the sample - pivots aged 49 to 53 and pivots' parents who are grandparents to the pivots' children.
Chapters 2 through 4 are more in depth discussions of these concepts, including their relation to case marking and syntactic pivots.
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