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Point or points may refer to:

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Business and finance

• Basis point, 1/100 of one percent, denoted bp, bps, and ?
• Percentage points, used to measure a change in percentage absolutely
• Pivot point (technical analysis), a price level of significance in analysis of a financial market that is used as a predictive indicator of market movement
• Point (mortgage), a percentage sometimes referred to as a form of pre-paid interest used to reduce interest rates in a mortgage loan
• Reward points (see loyalty program), marketing strategy
• Royalty points, a way of sharing profit between companies and unit holders
• Vigorish point, the commission charged on a gambling bet or loanshark's loan

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Engineering

• Points, a contact breaker in an ignition system
• Points, a railroad switch (British English)
• Points of sail, a sailing boat's course in relation to wind direction
• Projectile point, a hafted archaeological artifact used as a knife or projectile tip

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Entertainment

• Le Point, a French weekly newsmagazine
• Point (album), a 2001 album by Cornelius
• Points (Matthew Shipp album), by jazz pianist Matthew Shipp
• Point #1, a 1999 album of Chevelle
• POINT Music, a record label
• Point, a publishing imprint of Scholastic Corporation

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Games and sports

• Point, any of various abstract quantities used in games to determine a score; see Score
• Point, a fielding position in cricket
• Point, a unit of the score in some sports:
  • Point (basketball), units obtained by scoring baskets during a game
  • Point (tennis), the smallest unit of scoring in tennis
  • Point (American football), a unit of scoring earned through a field goal or touchdown
  • Point, in ice hockey or lacrosse, a goal or assist a player earns during a game
• Points decision, in boxing and some other fighting sports
• The point (ice hockey), the location of an ice hockey player
• Point guard, in basketball
• Points (association football)
• High card points, used for hand evaluation in contract bridge (distinct from points used in bridge scoring)

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Places

• Point, a promontory usually shorter than a cape
• Point, Outer Hebrides
• Point, Texas
• Point, the NE tip and a ferry terminal of Lismore, Inner Hebrides

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Mathematics

• Point (geometry), an entity that has a location in space or on a plane, but has no extent; more generally, an element of some abstract topological space
• Point-free geometry
• Stationary point, a point in the domain of a single-valued function where the value of the function ceases to change
• Critical point (mathematics), a stationary point of a function of an arbitrary number of variables
• Point, or Element (category theory), generalizes the set-theoretic concept of an element of a set to an object of any category
• Decimal point

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Measurement units

• Compass point, one of the 32 directions on a traditional compass, equal to one eighth of a right angle (11.25 degrees)
• Point (gemstone), 2 milligrams, or one hundredth of a carat
• Point, in hunting, the number of antler tips on the hunted animal (e.g. 9 point buck)
• Point, for describing paper-stock thickness, a synonym of mil and thou (one thousandth of an inch)
• Point, a hundredth of an inch or 0.254 mm, a unit of measurement formerly used for rainfall in Australia
• Point (typography), a measurement used in printing, the meaning of which has changed over time
• Paris point, 2/3 cm, used for shoe sizes

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Parliamentary procedure

• Point of order, a matter raised during a debate concerning the rules of debating themselves
• Point of privilege, a matter related to the rights and privileges of a parliamentary body or of one or more of its members

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Science

• Point (coat color), animal fur coloration of the extremities
• Point, a data element in a SCADA system representing a single input or output
• Point mutation, a change in a single nucleotide and therefore in a specific codon

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Typography

• Point, in typography, a dot character:
  • Full stop, Interpunct, Decimal point or Radix point
• Vowel points, used to disambiguated a consonantal writing system:
  • Tashk?l and ?arak?t for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, etc., or Niqqud for Hebrew

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Other

• Point, in specialized character sets:
  • dot in Morse code
  • dots in Braille
• Point Class Cutter, a small vessel formerly used as a patrol craft by the United States Coast Guard
• Point man, the lead soldier or vehicle in a patrol
• Point system (driving), a system of demerits for driving offenses
• Pointe technique, a ballet technique for dancing on the tips of toes
• Points, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Public Oregon Intercity Transit, styled as POINT, a public transit system

See also

• Endpoint (disambiguation)
• Lapointe (disambiguation), also Lepoint/La Pointe/Le Point
• Midpoint (disambiguation)
• Pointing (disambiguation)
• Prize
• Start Point (disambiguation)
• The Point (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Point"
• All pages with a title containing Point

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