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Point or points may refer to the following:

Business and finance

Basis point, 1/100 of one percent, denoted bp, bps, and ‱Pivot point, a price level of significance in analysis of a financial market that is used as a predictive indicator of market movementPoint (mortgage), a percentage sometimes referred to as a form of pre-paid interest used to reduce interest rates in a mortgage loanReward points (see loyalty program), marketing strategyVigorish point, the commission charged on a gambling bet or loanshark's loan

Engineering

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

Entertainment

Le Point, a French weekly news magazinePoint (album), a 2001 album by CorneliusPoint #1, a 1999 album of ChevellePOINT Music, a record labelRoyalty points a way of sharing profit between companies and unit holders.

Geography

Point, a peninsula (see List of peninsulas)Point, Outer Hebrides

Mathematics

See also: List of pointsPoint (geometry), an entity that has a location in space or on a plane, but has no extent a shape that is indivisibleStationary point (or turning point), a point in a set of inputs to a function where the output ceases to change

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 caratPoint, 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 (typography), a measurement used in printing, the meaning of which has changed over timeParis point, 2/3 cm, used for shoe sizes 3 cm

Science

Point (coat color), animal fur coloration of the extremitiesPoint, a data element in a SCADA system representing a single input or outputPoint Mutation, a change in a single nucleotide and therefore in a specific codonPoint (amphetamines), one tenth of a gram.

Sports

Point, a fielding position in cricketPoint, a unit of the score (game) in some sports and games: Point (basketball), units obtained by scoring baskets during a gamePoint (tennis), the smallest unit of scoring in tennisPoint, in ice hockey or lacrosse, a goal or assist a player earns during a gamePoints decision in boxing and some other fighting sportsThe point (ice hockey), the location of an ice hockey playerPoint guard, in basketballPoints (association football)

Other

Point, in specialized character sets (e.g.: dot in Morse code, dots in Braille)Point, in typography, a dot character (e.g.: full stop, interpunct, decimal point, radix point)Point Class Cutter, a small vessel formerly used as a patrol craft by the United States Coast GuardPoint man, the lead soldier or vehicle in a patrolPoint of order, a matter raised during a debate concerning the rules of debating themselvesPoint system (driving), a system of demerits for driving offensesVowel points: niqqud for the Hebrew language and harakat for ArabicEn pointe, a technique in ballet
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