Point

For technical reasons, "Point #1" redirects here. For the Chevelle album, see Point No. 1.

Point or points may refer to the following:

Business and finance

• Basis point, 1/100 of one percent, denoted bp, bps, and ‱
• Pivot point, 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
• 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 news magazine
• Point (album), a 2001 album by Cornelius
• Point #1, a 1999 album of Chevelle
• POINT Music, a record label
• Royalty points, a way of sharing profit between companies and unit holders

Geography

• Point, a promontory usually shorter than cape
• Point, Outer Hebrides

Mathematics

See also: 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
• Point-free geometry
• Stationary point (or turning point), a point in a set of inputs to a function where the output ceases to change
• Element (or a point), 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

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
• Point (amphetamines), one tenth of a gram

Sports

• 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, 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)

Other

• Point, any of various abstract quantities used in games to determine a score; see score (game)
• Point, in specialized character sets:
  • dot in Morse code
  • dots in Braille)
• Point, in typography, a dot character:
  • 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
  • harakat for Arabic
• Pointe technique, used in ballet when dancing on the tips of the toes

See also

• Endpoint (disambiguation)
• Midpoint (disambiguation)
• The Point (disambiguation)
• Pointing (disambiguation)
• Prize
• Start Point (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Point"
• All pages with titles containing "Point"