plural of point mutation

(engineering) A point on an engineering drawing that has been added to make the layout of the part easier. It is usually the intersection of the tangent lines of a curve.

(sports) A type of match fixing, motivated by gambling, where the perpetrators try to prevent a team from covering a published point spread.

present participle of point shave

(mathematics) A point in a convex set which does not lie in any open line segment joining two points in the set. / (mathematics) The maximum or minimum of a function.

A city, the county seat of Roosevelt County, Montana, United States.

(topology) (said to be "of" a given subset of a topological space) a point whose every neighborhood contains uncountably many points belonging to the given subset

(heraldry) nombril

plural of point lace

(mechanics) The point at which the increasing strain in a material causes it to break. / (figuratively) The point at which a person or system succumbs to stresses or pressures and descends into crisis.