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A pivot is the fixed central point that something else turns around, like the pin that a pair of scissors turns on. As a verb, to pivot means to turn around that central point — a basketball player can pivot on one foot without it leaving the floor. The word is also used a lot in business and everyday talk: to "pivot" means to change your plan, direction, or strategy fairly suddenly, usually because the first plan was not working — for example, a small company might pivot from selling one product to selling a different one.
樞紐;支點(名詞);轉向;改變策略(動詞,常用於商業)
組成From an old French/Latin word for a hinge or pin that something turns on. It does not split into English pieces.
原始詞典資料16 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pivotnoun/ˈpɪv.ɪt/
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A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
- The weight of the body and the traction and braking forces are taken by the conventional dished bogie centre pivot with phosphor-bronze liner; this type of centre pivot facilitates passage over marshalling yard humps.
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Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
- “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]”
- Sandy Weill was the man who stitched Citigroup together in the 1990s and in the process helped bury the Glass-Steagall act, a Depression-era law separating retail and investment banking. Last month he performed a perfect pivot: he now wants regulators to undo his previous work.
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Act of turning on one foot.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsThe officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
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A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAn element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA pivot table.
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computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceAny of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
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mathematicssciencesAn element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
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mathematicssciencesstatisticsA pivotal quantity.
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ball-gamesfootballgamesA quarterback.
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ball-gamesgameshandballA circle runner.
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governmentpoliticsA shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
pivotverb/ˈpɪv.ɪt/
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To turn on an exact spot.
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slangbusinessTo make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.
- Mr. Shah’s new business has signed up 25 New York City hotels and raised $1.5 million from angel investors and $3 million from a seed round. Yet three months into his new project, he has had to pivot again, realizing that his best customers are large businesses, not individuals.
- “Entrepreneurs usually have some inkling about a problem they can solve,” he said. “But typically they’re not exactly right. So if you survive long enough, you pivot and pivot and pivot and find what sticks.”
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governmentpoliticsTo make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。