(manufacturing) A point of convergence between two rolling parts, or a rolling part and a stationary part, where all or part of the human body could become trapped and injured.

(cricket, lacrosse) a fielding position between cover and point, about 15° forward of square; a fielder in this position.

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, square of the batsman's wicket and near the boundary / (cricket) a fielder in that position.

(physics) The unique temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid and gas phases of a substance are all in equilibrium.

(idiomatic) A disputed issue or state of affairs that causes an interruption or outright impasse in progress towards some goal or resolution, especially in negotiation or argumentation.

An issue that is subject to, or open for, discussion or debate, to which no satisfactory answer is found; originally, one to be definitively determined by an assembly of the people.

(mathematics, catastrophe theory) The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences.

The point in a perspective drawing at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge.

One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference of two percentages.

(optics) A focus; a point at which rays of light or other radiation converge. / The centre of any activity. / (art, aesthetics) A feature that attracts particular attention.