points Definition - English Dictionary | points Explanations and Pronunciations

(rail transport, Britain) Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.

(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.

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Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The Soviets also distributed flyers pointing out the mujahidin resistance was financed by the U.S.
- The trouble starts when gender (identity) ceases to be a reference point for connecting with a living growing person and is substituted for the person hirself.
- Cassola regards the short form as an Aeolism (cf. Chantraine I, 161-3) , which from an epic point of view would be an archaism.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
- New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
- At half past nine, with the booming drums of the parade sounding up the street, the shivering form of Dwindle Daniels was again sogged down to its original saturation point.
- Caspase-3 activity differed between 7 and 21 days post SCH (Figure 3c), falling to prelesion values at the last time point.

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