Point
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Point or points may refer to the following:
Business and finance
- Basis point, 1/100 of one percent, denoted bp, bps, and ‱
- Percentage points, used to measure a change in percentage absolutely
- Pivot point (stock market), a price level of significance in analysis of a financial market that is used as a predictive indicator of market movement
- Point (mortgage), a percentage sometimes referred to as a form of pre-paid interest used to reduce interest rates in a mortgage loan
- Reward points (see loyalty program), marketing strategy
- Royalty points, a way of sharing profit between companies and unit holders
- Vigorish point, the commission charged on a gambling bet or loanshark's loan
Engineering
- Points, a contact breaker in an ignition system
- Points, a railroad switch (British English)
- Points of sail, a sailing boat's course in relation to wind direction
- Projectile point, a hafted archaeological artifact used as a knife or projectile tip
Entertainment
- Le Point, a French weekly newsmagazine
- Point (album), a 2001 album by Cornelius
- Points (Matthew Shipp album), by jazz pianist Matthew Shipp
- Point #1, a 1999 album of Chevelle
- POINT Music, a record label
Games and sports
- Point, any of various abstract quantities used in games to determine a score; see Score (game)
- Point, a fielding position in cricket
- Point, a unit of the score (sport) in some sports:
- Point (basketball), units obtained by scoring baskets during a game
- Point (tennis), the smallest unit of scoring in tennis
- Point (American football), a unit of scoring earned through a field goal or touchdown
- Point, in ice hockey or lacrosse, a goal or assist a player earns during a game
- Points decision in boxing and some other fighting sports
- The point (ice hockey), the location of an ice hockey player
- Point guard, in basketball
- Points (association football)
Geography
- Point, a promontory usually shorter than cape
- Point, Outer Hebrides
Mathematics
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- Point (geometry), an entity that has a location in space or on a plane, but has no extent; more generally, an element of some abstract topological space
- Point-free geometry
- Stationary point, a point in the domain of a single-valued function where the value of the function ceases to change
- Critical point (mathematics), a stationary point of a function of an arbitrary number of variables
- Point, or Element, generalizes the set-theoretic concept of an element of a set to an object of any category
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, a hundredth of an inch or 0.254 mm, a unit of measurement formerly used for rainfall in Australia
- Point (typography), a measurement used in printing, the meaning of which has changed over time
- Paris point, 2/3 cm, used for shoe sizes
Parliamentary procedure
- Point of order, a matter raised during a debate concerning the rules of debating themselves
- Point of privilege, a matter related to the rights and privileges of a parliamentary body or of one or more of its members
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
Typography
- Point, in typography, a dot character:
- Vowel points, used to disambiguated a consonantal writing system:
Other
- Point, in specialized character sets:
- dot in Morse code
- dots in Braille
- 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 system (driving), a system of demerits for driving offenses
- Pointe technique, ballet technique for dancing on the tips of toes
- Points, West Virginia, USA
- Public Oregon Intercity Transit, styled as POINT, a public transit system
See also
- Endpoint (disambiguation)
- Lapointe (disambiguation), also Lepoint/La Pointe/Le Point
- Midpoint (disambiguation)
- Pointing (disambiguation)
- Prize
- Start Point (disambiguation)
- The Point (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Point"
- All pages with titles containing Point
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