Pivot vs Reflex - What's the difference?
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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.
Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
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(military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
(roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
(computing) An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
To turn on an exact spot.
An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
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(linguistics) the descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language
(obsolete) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
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* Tennyson
Bent, turned back or reflected.
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Produced automatically by a stimulus.
(geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
* 1878 , James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry , MacMillan,
* 1895 , David Eugen Smith and Wooster Woodruff Bernan, New Plane and Solid Geometry , page 7:
* 1958 , Howard Fehr, “On Teaching Dihedral Angle and Steradian” in The Mathematics Teacher , v 51, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, page 275:
* 1991 , B. Falcidieno et al, “Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling” in Eurographics '91: Proceedings , North-Holland, page 145:
* 2001 , Esther M. Arkin et al, “On the Reflexivity of Point Sets”, in Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings , Springer, page 195:
* 2004 , Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings , part 3, Springer, page 117:
(photography) Of a camera or camera mechanism, using a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder, allowing the photographer to see it up to the moment of exposure.
to bend, turn back or reflect
to respond to a stimulus
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As nouns the difference between pivot and reflex
is that pivot is center while reflex is an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.As an adjective reflex is
bent, turned back or reflected.As a verb reflex is
to bend, turn back or reflect.pivot
English
(wikipedia pivot)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”}}
Banking reform: Sticking together, The Economist, 18th August issue
- Sandy Weill was the man who stitched Citigroup together in the 1990s and in the process helped bury the Glass-Steagall act, a Depression-era law separating retail and investment banking. Last month he performed a perfect pivot : he now wants regulators to undo his previous work.
Derived terms
* pivot bridge * pivot gun * pivot toothSee also
* fulcrum * pivotalVerb
reflex
English
(wikipedia reflex)Noun
(es)citation, page= , passage=He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.}}
- Yon gray is not the morning's eye, / 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow.
- On the depths of death there swims / The reflex of a human face.
Adjective
(en adjective)- the reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions
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- A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex .
- An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute''; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be ''obtuse''; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be ''reflex'' or ''convex .
- If the reflex' region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is ' reflex .
- A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.
- We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex .
- P'' denotes a polygon and ''r the number of reflex vertices.