Point

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Point or points may refer to:

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Point, in typography, a dot character:
- Full stop, Interpunct, Decimal point or Radix point
Vowel points, used to disambiguated a consonantal writing system:
- Tashkīl and ḥarakāt for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, etc., or Niqqud for Hebrew

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, ballet technique for dancing on the tips of toes
Points, West Virginia, USA
Public Oregon Intercity Transit, styled as POINT, a public transit system