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Plural of pivot

regular plural

The plural of pivot is pivots.

Forms of pivot

Singularpivot /ˈpɪv.ɪt/
Pluralpivots
Countablecountable

Pivots in a sentence

  • Her fans (they call themselves CoHorts) point to these unexpected pivots as part of Hoover's appeal.[2022 January 24, Stephanie Merry, “On TikTok, crying is encouraged. Colleen Hoover gets the job done.”, in The Boston Globe, volume 301…. From the entry cohort
  • A neuroqueer project not only questions typical conceptions of gender but also pivots away from normative gender categories altogether.2019 February, Justine E. Enger, “'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification”, in Gender & Society…. From the entry neuroqueer
  • If the lighthead pivots too freely, adjustment can be made at both yoke pivots ( fig . 18 - 22 ) .1971, U.S. Naval Dental School, Dental Technician, Repair, page 329. From the entry lighthead
  • They were mounted as crapaudine doors; i.e., supflat moldings, studded with rosettes, surmounted by a cyma ported by pivots fitted into sockets in threshold and lintel.1973, Encyclopaedia Britannica - Volume 7, page 589. From the entry crapaudine

Meaning of pivot

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
  3. noun Act of turning on one foot.

Full definition of pivot

Questions about the plural of pivot

What is the plural of pivot?
The plural of pivot is pivots.
Is pivot countable?
Pivot is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pivot (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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