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Point
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Point or points may refer to the following:
Business and finance
Engineering
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Geography
Mathematics
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List of points
- Point (geometry), an entity that has a location in space or on a plane, but has no extent
- a shape that is indivisible
- Stationary point (or turning point), a point in a set of inputs to a function where the output ceases to change
Measurement units
- Compass point, one of the 32 directions on a traditional compass, equal to one eighth of a right angle (11.25 degrees)
- Point (gemstone), 2 milligrams, or one hundredth of a carat
- Point, in hunting, the number of antler tips on the hunted animal (e.g.: 9 point buck)
- Point, for describing paper-stock thickness, a synonym of mil and thou (one thousandth of an inch)
- Point (typography), a measurement used in printing, the meaning of which has changed over time
- Paris point, 2/3 cm, used for shoe sizes 3 cm
Science
- Point (coat color), animal fur coloration of the extremities
- Point, a data element in a SCADA system representing a single input or output
- Point Mutation, a change in a single nucleotide and therefore in a specific codon
Sports
Other
- Point, in specialized character sets (e.g.: dot in Morse code, dots in Braille)
- Point, in typography, a dot character (e.g.: full stop, interpunct, decimal point, radix point)
- Point Class Cutter, a small vessel formerly used as a patrol craft by the United States Coast Guard
- Point man, the lead soldier or vehicle in a patrol
- Point of order, a matter raised during a debate concerning the rules of debating themselves
- Point system (driving), a system of demerits for driving offenses
- Vowel points: niqqud for the Hebrew language and harakat for Arabic
- En pointe, a technique in ballet
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