Pivot

Pivot may refer to:
 * Pivot, the point of rotation in a lever system
 * More generally, the center point of any rotational system
 * Pivot joint, a kind of joint between bones in the body
 * Pivot turn, a dance move

Companies

 * Incitec Pivot, an Australian chemicals and explosives manufacturer
 * Pivot Legal Society, a legal advocacy organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia
 * Pivot Wireless, a cell phone service, created by a joint venture between Sprint and multiple cable companies

Computing

 * Apache Pivot, an open-source platform for building applications in Java
 * Microsoft Live Labs Pivot, a data search application
 * Morrow Pivot and Morrow Pivot II, early laptop computers
 * Pivot, an element of the quicksort algorithm
 * Pivot display, a display which can change orientation
 * Pivot Stickfigure Animator, stick-figure animation software
 * Pivot table, a data summarization tool in spreadsheets
 * Pivotal Games, a former UK video game developer
 * Pivoting, a computer security exploit used by hackers to use a compromised computer for attacks

Linguistics

 * Syntactic pivot, the argument of the verb around which the sentence revolves
 * Pivot language, an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation

Mathematics

 * Pivot element, a non-zero element of a matrix selected by an algorithm
 * Pivotal quantity, in statistics

Music

 * Pivot (U.S. band), an American rock band
 * Pivot, the former name of the experimental rock band PVT
 * Pivot (album), by Amoeba
 * Pivot chord, a chord that is diatonic to more than one key or, in other words, is common to two keys

Places

 * Mount Pivot, a mountain in the western part of the Shackleton Range
 * Pivot Area or Heartland, the theme of The Geographical Pivot of History
 * Pivot Peak, the highest point in Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land

Sports

 * Pivot, a player position in futsal
 * Pivot, a player position in roller derby
 * Pivot, a player position in team handball
 * Pivot, another term for five-eighth, one of the rugby league positions
 * Pivot, another term for fly-half, one of the rugby union positions
 * Pivot or center (basketball), a player position in basketball
 * Pivot turn (skiing), a technique of turning in place in skiing
 * In baseball, the action of a second baseman on an infield double play in making the turn from catching to throwing

Other uses

 * Pivot, a lean startup method for developing businesses and products by changing direction
 * Pivot point (stock market), a price point in the financial, commodity, and securities markets
 * Pivot (card game), a casual card game released by Wizards of the Coast in 1998
 * Kakekotoba, or pivot word, a technique in Japanese poetry
 * Bernard Pivot (1935–2024), French journalist
 * "The Geographical Pivot of History" by H.J. Mackinder
 * Pivot (TV network), a defunct American digital cable and satellite television network
 * USS Pivot