pivots's Usage Examples:

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.

It is utilized in the spindles of machinetools, in the balls and rollers for high-speed bearings, slides, pivots and such like.

from the pivots of booms which have a total length of 34 in.

But a limit is put to th~ diminution of the radii of journals and pivots by the conditions 01 durability and of proper lubrication, and also by conditions 01 strength and stiffness.

A reversible level d rests on the accurately turned pivots of this axis.

This curve, bein~ an asymptote to its axis, is capable of being indefinitely proloi~ged towards X; but in designing pivots it should stop before the angle PTY becomes less than the angle of repose of the rubbing surfaces, otherwise the pivot will be liable to stick in its bearing.

There was general agreement on foreign policy, whose pivots were close alliance with Czechoslovakia, the series of bilateral agreements which made up the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia Aug.

eyewear frame with miniature extendible booms, enhanced with pivots.

The doors had pivots of bronze revolving in well-fitted bronze cup-like sockets let into the thresholds.

there are two soft iron tongues, n, s, fixed upon and at right angles to an axle a, which works on pivots at its ends.

Here the crane-post is extended into a long mast and is furnished with pivots at the top and bottom; the mast is supported by two " back ties," and these are connected to the socket of the bottom pivot by the " sleepers.

4 shows the mounting of a Thomson card on its pivot, which in common with the pivots of most other compasses is made of brass, tipped with osmium-iridium, which although very hard can be sharply pointed and does not corrode.

This axis is a hollow forging of nickel steel, of which the accurately turned pivots rest on bearings attached to cast-iron uprights bolted upon a massive cast-iron base plate.

Synonyms:

swivel, pirouette, turn,

Antonyms:

heat, tense, relax, reduce,