1. A single element; a specific detail, quality, or throught: At the staff meeting the teachers argued about the different points or aspects regarding how to discipline the students when they misbehaved.
2. A certain moment in an event: At one particular point during the conference, Jill suggested a further item to be discussed.
3. A topic or issue of conversation; the main idea: When the hikers got lost, they agreed on one point - to stay together, whatever might happen!
4. An objective or aim that makes something important or significant: After the conclusion of the meeting and the decision had been made, there was no point in continuing about other options.
5. A certain place or location: Before the hikers devided up into small groups, they decided to meet at a specific point on the trail for lunch.
5. A sharp tip of something: Joan said, "Be careful, Joe. The knife has a very jagged point and it isn't dull at all!"

1. To stretch out the index finger in a certain direction: When looking at the map, Susan pointed to the spot where they would find a hut to sleep in during the night.
2. To instruct a person or encourage someone to go in a specific direction: If Mary asks for a drink of water, point her to the faucet in the kitchen!
3. To aim at an object: The hunter pointed his gun at the huge wolf that was going to attack him.

"At this time"; or "At this point" is more than adequate and is preferable!

In ordnance dealing with weapons, the point at which synchronized firing is directed.

Each of the four main points of the compass: The cardinal points are "north", "south", "east", and "west".

1. a painful spot occurring in hysteria which is not a result of an organic disease.
2. An area of the body; such as, the inguinal (groin) and mammary regions which, when pressed, produce hysterical attacks in susceptible individuals.

1. The transition temperature, approximately 2.19 K. below which helium I changes into helium II.
2. The temperature at which the specific heat of a substance has a sharp peak.

This is observed in many second-order transitions.

The most prominent point on the outer surface of the zygomatic bone.

1. An electrode with many contacts for recording from many sources, as from different depths in the brain.
2. Several sets of terminals providing for the use of several electrodes.

1. In optics, either of two points located on the axis of an optical system in such a way that a ray directed through one point emerges from the lens as if through the other point and in a parallel direction; if the same medium is on both sides of the lens, the nodal points coincide with the principal points.
2. In electricity, in a transmission system, the junction points by which automatic switches and switching centers are nodal points in automated systems.
3. In oceanography, points of zero displacement of water in amphidromic tidal systems, reduced from a line to a point by the Coriolis effect (observed deflection of something).

Also called, amphidromic points (points of almost zero tidal fluctuation on the ocean surface, represented on a chart of cotidal lines by a point from which these lines radiate).

1. An electrode with an insulating handle at one end and a small metallic terminal at the other end for use in applying static sparks.
2. An electrode with a small metallic point to obtain a high electric current density in a small area.