pivot's Usage Examples:

Several of the varieties are cut into gems and ornaments, balance weights, pivot supports for delicate instruments, agate mortars, 'c.

The small pivoted iron needle ns placed in their common field therefore takes up a certain position, dependent on the relative value of these fields.

In the first the load can be lifted vertically, and then moved round a central pivot, so as to be deposited at any convenient point within the range.

The knuckle stands open until the coupling is pushed against another coupling, when the two hooks turn on their pivots to the position shown in fig.

The bearing of the pivot is called a step or footstep.

The moment of friction of this pivot is at first almost C, inappreciable from the extreme smallness of the T radius of the circles of contact of the ball and cups, but, as they wear, that radius and the moment of friction increase.

It consists of five principal parts - the card, the needles, the bowl, a jewelled cap and the pivot.

A circular plate ' made much like the backe parte of an Astrolabe ' with a pivoted alidade, the sights.

Since the start of the relationship between movies and advertising sales, movie posters have been pivotal in letting those who already attend the movies know that a new film they may be interested in will soon be released.

The other fittings are brass and include a sliding sunshade and a pivoted eyepiece cover.

The receiving apparatus consisted of a multiplier, in the centre of which were pivoted one or two magnetic needles, which either indicated the message by the movement of an index or by striking two bells of different tone, or recorded it by making ink dots on a ribbon of paper.

It was the uniquely authoritative voice of Nina Simone, however, which succeeded in making I Loves You Porgy such a pivotal song.

Thanks to the swivel pivoting strap, the three-layer polar fleece face foam, and the 3-D facial contour.

Synonyms:

swivel, pirouette, turn,

Antonyms:

heat, tense, relax, reduce,