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PIVOT (Fr. pivot; probably connected with Ital. pivolo, peg, pin, diminutive of piva, pipa, pipe)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 690 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PIVOT (Fr. pivot; probably connected with Ital. pivolo, peg, pin, diminutive of piva, pipa, pipe) , that on which something turns, specifically a metal pointed pin or short

shaft

in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle. The

term

TERM

occurs frequently in

combination

COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

with other words, chiefly in technical usage, e.g_ " pivot-gearing," for a

system

SYSTEM

of gearing in machinery which admits of the shifting of the

axis

AXIS (Lat. for " axle ")

of a

driving

DRIVING (from " to drive," i.e. generally to propel, force along or in, a word common in various forms to the Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
)

wheel

, so that the

power

POWER [
WILLIAM
GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

may be communicated in various directions.

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