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pivot
1. a short shaft or pin supporting something that turns; fulcrum 2. the end of a shaft or arbor that terminates in a bearing pivot [′piv·ət] (mechanics) A short, pointed shaft forming the center and fulcrum on which something turns, balances, or oscillates. pivot 1. A hinge. 2. The axle or pin about which a window or door rotates. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | And not only did the Martians either not know of (which is incredible), or abstain from, the wheel, but in their apparatus singularly little use is made of the fixed pivot or relatively fixed pivot, with circular motions thereabout confined to one plane. Yet in the interval since Crick's last view of them something had occurred which changed the pivot of the universe for their two natures; something which, had he known its quality, the dairyman would have despised, as a practical man; yet which was based upon a more stubborn and resistless tendency than a whole heap of so-called practicalities. The bullet, driving with momentum sufficient to perforate a man's body a mile distant, struck Tudor with such force as to pivot him, whirling him half around by the shock of its impact and knocking him down. |
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