present participle of get to the point

A characteristic or ability at which one particularly excels.

(statistics, of an estimator) The number or proportion of arbitrarily large or small extreme values that must be introduced into a batch or sample to cause the estimator to yield an arbitrarily large result.

the stage at which saturation is reached, when something can take no more.

simple past tense and past participle of get to the point

(intransitive, Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To place a curse on another person by pointing a bone at that person; to curse by performing a magic ritual.

To fail to grasp the meaning of an utterance or situation.

(geometry) A point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane.

(fantasy role-playing games board games video games) magic point.

The temperature at which the air becomes saturated and water vapor condenses to form dew.