point
a geometric element that has position but no extension
How often you will meet it
Rank 401 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 49,631 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.024% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a geometric element that has position but no extension a point is defined by its coordinates
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something get to the pointhe missed the point of the joke
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole also: detail, item several of the details are similara point of information
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process also: degree, level, stage a remarkable degree of franknessat what stage are the social sciences?
- an instant of time also: point in time at that point I had to leave
point in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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This was the one point on which she had resisted him.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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It was from the neglect of this cardinal point that the Templars fell.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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They were cheering the president, on the point of bursting themselves into fragments to do it, it seemed.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Leaving Joppa, the next point of interest to visit will be Alexandria, which will be reached in twenty-four hours.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 01 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1