Fixed pivot

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(Mil.)

the fixed point about which any line of troops wheels.

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And not only did the Martians either not know of (which is incredible), or abstain from, the wheel, but in their apparatus singularly little use is made of the fixed pivot or relatively fixed pivot, with circular motions thereabout confined to one plane.

The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context

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