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Definition of Pivoted
1. pivot [v] - See also: pivot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pivoted
Literary usage of Pivoted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"are pivoted, the word " linkage " is employed to denote any combination of pieces
pivoted ... When such a combination is pivoted in any way to a fixed base, ..."
2. A History of Electricity (the Intellectual Rise in Electricity) from by Park Benjamin (1895)
"the first time, produces the pivoted compass. The floating bowl and the large
vessel of ... pivoted above the glass cover is an azimuth bar, as before, ..."
3. Safety Engineering (1915)
"Double buug with pivoted transom. Counterbalanced. Stationary. Twin stationary.
... pivoted upper. pivoted lower. pivoted upper and lower. Single pivoted. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"It did away with the block and plug method of connection, substituting, for the
latter, pivoted strips of metal adapted to be rotated into contact with ..."
5. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"Sashes pivoted at the Top and Bottom. Large plate-glass windows, with single
lights, are generally pivoted at the top and bottom; and when the sash is ..."
6. Railway Track and Track Work by Edward Ernest Russell Tratman (1908)
"If pivoted to a shaft set at about 45° and carried by a swivel it will swing
upward Fig. 130—Bridge Tell-Tale. and backward, and will be returned to ..."
7. Handbook of Ship Calculations, Construction and Operation: A Book of by Charles Haynes Hughes (1917)
"SIZES OF SOLID CIRCULAR DAVITS pivoted or Mallory Davits.—Here (see Fig. ...
The davits are usually of an I section with the lower part pivoted. ..."
8. The Electromagnet, and Electromagnetic Mechanism by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1891)
"DEFLEXION OF pivoted RING BY ALTERNATE CURRENT ELECTRON AGN F.TS. Again, if a
copper ring or pile of copper washers is pivoted over the pole of an alternate ..."
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