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.
We assume that during the whole phase, both feet are pivoting in the vertical plane, the first, round its tip, and the second, round its heel.
Indeed, the construction of an idealised life course trajectory, pivoting around the notion of independent adulthood, has been a critical factor in defining the boundaries of legitimate welfare claims.
The typically very low number of iterations required then compensates to a large extent for the iterations being considerably more expensive than pivots in the simplex method.
The single support phase is characterized by one limb (the swing limb) moving in the forward direction while another limb (the stance limb) is pivoted on the ground.
Our hypothesis pivots on the notion of "identifying with" someone else.
We regard two trees as distinct if they cannot be superposed by pivoting the lines around the nodes that they enter.
The book then pivots on a short (six page) ' interlude ', followed by four chapters on the independence period proper.
Chapters 2 through 4 are more in depth discussions of these concepts, including their relation to case marking and syntactic pivots.
