Usually means: Rotation around a single axis.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. pivot joint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. pivot joint: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pivot joint: Vocabulary.com
  4. pivot-joint: Wordnik
  5. pivot joint: Dictionary.com
  6. Pivot joint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. pivot joint: Rhymezone
  8. pivot joint: FreeDictionary.org
  9. pivot joint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. pivot joint: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pivot joint, Pivot joint: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pivot-joint, pivot joint: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pivot joint: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Pivot-joint: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. Pivot-joint, pivot joint: Medical dictionary

(Note: See pivot_joints as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Pivot joint)

noun:  In animal anatomy, a pivot joint (trochoid joint, rotary joint or lateral ginglymus) is a type of synovial joint whose movement axis is parallel to the long axis of the proximal bone, which typically has a convex articular surface.


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