2. Noun. (rail transport British) Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another. ¹
3. Noun. (automotive) The two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow current to flow or not through the ignition coil. Each surface is called a point singular (there's usually a moving point which is pushed by the distributor cam and a fixed point which isn't), but they're made together in a unit and serviced or replaced that way and are hence normally called points plural. ¹
4. Verb. (third-person singular of point) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Points
1. point [v] - See also: point
Lexicographical Neighbors of Points
Literary usage of Points
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"That its popularity was far from going to pieces, however, was apparent by the
fact that, it held second positiu.'i with the respectable total of 185 points ..."
2. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"Colours or coloured points ? What is the difference ? is not an idea of extension:
for the idea of extension consists of parts; and this idea, according to ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"To emphasize this abstract aspect, it is convenient to use symbols, say capital
letters for points, Roman minuscules for lines, and Greek letters for planes ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"Consider with him the set of points for which the requirement is omitted, ...
The totality of these limit-points is called the first derived set, ..."
5. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1901)
"Cars are also liable to jump the points, and become derailed, ... It is very
desirable to avoid laying points so as to turn out towards the inside of a ..."
6. The Works of William Chillingworth by William Chillingworth (1838)
"To say that the Creed contains all points necessarily to be believed, ...
Not pertinent; because our question is not what points are necessary to be ..."
7. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"That its popularity was far from going to pieces, however, was apparent by the
fact that, it held second positiu.'i with the respectable total of 185 points ..."
8. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"Colours or coloured points ? What is the difference ? is not an idea of extension:
for the idea of extension consists of parts; and this idea, according to ..."
9. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"To emphasize this abstract aspect, it is convenient to use symbols, say capital
letters for points, Roman minuscules for lines, and Greek letters for planes ..."
10. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"Consider with him the set of points for which the requirement is omitted, ...
The totality of these limit-points is called the first derived set, ..."
11. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1901)
"Cars are also liable to jump the points, and become derailed, ... It is very
desirable to avoid laying points so as to turn out towards the inside of a ..."
12. The Works of William Chillingworth by William Chillingworth (1838)
"To say that the Creed contains all points necessarily to be believed, ...
Not pertinent; because our question is not what points are necessary to be ..."
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