(military) In combat, to assume the first and most exposed position in a formation; to serve as the lead soldier/unit advancing through hostile or unsecured territory.

past participle of take point

Any feature in an environment which could be used to support a noose or other strangulation device (especially, for the purpose of attempting to end their life by suicide).

Curie temperature.

(nautical) A short line, stitched through a sail, for tying a reef

(electronics) One vertex of a Steiner tree. / (graph theory) An extra vertex that is not a member of the input.

(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.

(heraldry) A point mid-way between the bottom and centre of the shield.

A characteristic or ability at which one particularly excels.

(anatomy) A point of the skin one-third of the distance from the ASIS to the umbilicus, which corresponds to the most common location of the base of the appendix.