Lexic.us

Definition of Point of departure

1. Noun. A place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched. "My point of departure was San Francisco"

2. Noun. A beginning from which an enterprise is launched. "The point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Point Of Departure

point guard point guards point in time point jam point lace point man point men point mutation point mutations point of accumulation

point of apoapsis point of articulation point of contact point of departure (current term) point of elbow point of entry point of fixation point of honor point of inflection point of interest

point of intersection point of maximal impulse point of no return point of order point of ossification point of periapsis point of pride

Literary usage of Point of departure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"It will be granted that all knowledge psychologically presupposes data as its point of departure which are not mere products of subjective process. ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... at the height of three feet, is a fécond, which protects the other. At about a fourth-part of the length from the point of departure in the fécond ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... of superior mental (cerebral) activity and superiority, because this persistence unquestionably finds its point of departure in the brain itself. ..."

4. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François), M. Guizot, William Hazlitt (1856)
"... amalgamation—History and pretended works of Dionysius the Areopagite—Fundamental differences of the two doctrines: 1, in the point of departure and the ..."

5. Assessing the Human Health Risks of Trichloroethylene: Key Scientific Issues by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"If the establishment of point-of-departure-based dose-response assessment as a default policy model is intended to avoid the difficulties of choosing from ..."

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