Crossword clues for pivotal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pivotal \Piv"ot*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, relating to, or being a pivot. 2 Being of crucial importance; central, key.
WordNet
adj. being of crucial importance; "a pivotal event"; "Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions"- Henry Kissinger; "the polar events of this study"; "a polar principal" [syn: polar]
Wikipedia
Pivotal may refer to:
- Pivotal CRM, a customer relationship management software system offered by Aptean
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Pivotal Labs, a software company
- Pivotal Tracker, a project management product offered by Pivotal Labs
- Pivotal Software, a software company and spin off from VMware and EMC Corporation
Pivotal is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career restricted to six races between October 1995 and August 1996 he established himself as one of the leading sprinters in Europe. His most important wins came in the King's Stand Stakes and the Nunthorpe Stakes as a three-year-old in the summer of 1996. He was then retired to stud where he became an exceptionally successful breeding stallion.
Usage examples of "pivotal".
Lance Dixon of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center made a pivotal observation in this regard that was further amplified by Wolfgang Lerche of CERN, Vafa at Harvard, and Nicholas Warner, then of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Colonel Charles Kades, an exemplary New Dealer who would play a pivotal role in such critical Government Section initiatives as the drafting of a new constitution, later spoke frankly of his own background in this regard.
They rebuked me because it is the Necessarian school that provided the pivotal votes in the Starways Congress to send the Lusitania Fleet.
It is a pivotal quote in the first volume of a four-volume set on pyramidology that I bought in S.
But I have discovered that in this Exile world he devoted himself instead to the domestication of chatikot and heuadotberia and amphicyons, which became pivotal in the subsequent Tanu domination of society.
The Big Whack was the pivotal event whose subtly different outcomes produced the wide range of Earths we have encountered.
The Big Whack was the pivotal event whose subtly different outcomes produced the wide range of Earths we have encountered .
This deadline is popularly known as the safe-harbor provision of federal lawa provision that came to play a pivotal role in the 2000 presidential election.
However, because Iraq is a pivotal state in one of the most important and fragile regions of the world, what will follow Saddam is of equal importance.
I will see the last of the Bedlams become the pivotal nail in the coffin of his people.
During the war, Vint Hill played a pivotal role in eavesdropping on enemy communications for thousands of miles in all directions.
Beyond the intrinsic aesthetic appeal of this egalitarian treatment of all motion, we have seen that these symmetry principles played a pivotal role in the stunning conclusions regarding gravity that Einstein found.
In fact, we shall see that the conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics is actually not the first, but the third in a sequence of pivotal conflicts encountered during the past century, each of whose resolution has resulted in a stunning revision of our understanding of the universe.
There is in Indian mythology a great cobra imagined as balancing the tablelike earth on its head: its head being, of course, at the pivotal point, exactly beneath the world tree.
Fuzzy Institute and Holloway Station were becoming almost as pivotal to the affairs of Zarathustra as the capital at Mallorysport.