Point

Point or points may refer to:

Places

Point (mortgage), a percentage sometimes referred to as a form of pre-paid interest used to reduce interest rates in a mortgage loan
Basis point, 1/100 of one percent, denoted bp, bps, and ‱
Percentage points, used to measure a change in percentage absolutely
Pivot point (technical analysis), a price level of significance in analysis of a financial market that is used as a predictive indicator of market movement
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

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

Point, any of various abstract quantities used in games to determine a score; see Score
Point, a fielding position in cricket
Point, a unit of the score in some sports:
- Point (American football), a unit of scoring earned through a field goal or touchdown
- Point (basketball), units obtained by scoring baskets during a game
- Point (ice hockey), 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 (tennis), the smallest unit of scoring in tennis
High card points, used for hand evaluation in contract bridge (distinct from points used in bridge scoring)
Point guard, in basketball
Points (association football)

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, or Element (category theory), generalizes the set-theoretic concept of an element of a set to an object of any category
Critical point (mathematics), a stationary point of a function of an arbitrary number of variables
Decimal point
Point-free geometry
Stationary point, a point in the domain of a single-valued function where the value of the function ceases to change

Point (gemstone), 2 milligrams, or one hundredth of a carat
Point (typography), a measurement used in printing, the meaning of which has changed over time
- Point, in typography, a dot character:
  - Full stop, Interpunct, Decimal point or Radix point
- Vowel points, used to disambiguated a consonantal writing system:
  - Tashkīl and ḥarakāt for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, etc., or Niqqud for Hebrew
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
Compass point, one of the 32 directions on a traditional compass, equal to one eighth of a right angle (11.25 degrees)
Paris point, 2/3 cm, used for shoe sizes

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

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

Mittie Frances Clarke Point (1850-1837; pen name, "Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller"), American novelist

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
Public Oregon Intercity Transit, styled as POINT, a public transit system