Pivots Synonyms and Antonyms

To move, as a gun, laterally
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. traverses
  2. swivels
Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. swivels
  2. pins
  3. shafts
Antonyms:
  1. exteriors
To turn or cause to turn in place, as on a hinge or fixed point, tracing an arclike path
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wheels
  2. swings

Words Related to Pivots

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Pivots Sentence Examples

  • An oblong metallic box fitted with pivots, whose bearings are attached to the triangular beams, forms the tube for two parallel telescopes; these are separated throughout their length by a metallic diaphragm.

  • The declination axis is here represented by what are practically the trunnions or pivots of the tube, resting in bearings which are supported by the arms of a very massive cast-iron fork bolted to the upper end of the polar axis.

  • This axis is a hollow forging of nickel steel, of which the accurately turned pivots rest on bearings attached to cast-iron uprights bolted upon a massive cast-iron base plate.

  • This float dips into a tank filled with mercury so that practically the entire instrument is floated by the mercury, leaving only sufficient pressure on the bearings to ensure that the pivots will remain in contact with them.

  • In mechanism it is usually the central line either of a rotating shaft or axle having journals, gudgeons, or pivots turning in fixed bearings, or of a fixed spindle or dead centre round which a rotating bush turns; but it may sometimes be entirely beyond the limits of the turning body.

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