A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition, a focus of conversation or consideration. [from 14th c.]
(obsolete) The smallest quantity of something; a jot, a whit. [14th-17th c.]
(obsolete) A tiny amount of time; a moment. [14th-17th c.]
A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position. [from 14th c.]
(mathematics) A zero-dimensionalmathematicalobject representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction. [from 14th c.]
A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark. [from 14th c.]
(music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
“A scale and pointer indicated the relative angle.”
“Drawing is done by moving the pointer on the screen with the pointing device.”
“Ewolo gave me a pointer on how I should call out to get someone's attention, because sometimes she failed to hear my voice from afar.”
pointing
The action of the verb to point.
(usually singular or collective)Mortar that has been placed between bricks to hold them together. This is not strictly speaking correct word to use in this context, mortar would be the correct word, or joint filling. (or perhaps applies in the US only) This term is often misused as meaning mortar or joint filling, as 'repointing' is the action of making good and repairing of joints between stone.
The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
(art) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
(rail transport, Britain) Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.
(automotive) The two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow current to flow or not through the ignition coil. Each surface is called a point singular (there's usually a moving point which is pushed by the distributor cam and a fixed point which isn't), but they're made together in a unit and serviced or replaced that way and are hence normally called points plural.