Point

Point or points may refer to:

Place

Point (geography), a peninsula or headland
Point, Lewis, peninsula in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Point, Texas, city in Rains County, Texas, United States
Point, the NE tip and a ferry terminal of Lismore, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
Point Roberts, Washington, pene-exclave of the United States on the southernmost tip of the Tsawwassen peninsula, south of Vancouver, Canada
Points, West Virginia, unincorporated community in the United States
Point University, West Point, Georgia

Point (geometry), 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, or Element (category theory), generalizes the set-theoretic concept of an element of a set to an object of any category
Critical point (mathematics), stationary point of a function of an arbitrary number of variables
Decimal point
Point-free geometry
Stationary point, point in the domain of a single-valued function where the value of the function ceases to change

Point (gemstone), 2 milligrams, or one hundredth of a carat
Point (typography), a measurement used in printing, the meaning of which has changed over time
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
Paris point, 2/3 cm, used for shoe sizes
Points of the compass, one of the 32 directions on a traditional compass, equal to one eighth of a right angle (11.25 degrees)

Point (loyalty program),type of virtual currency in common use among mercantile loyalty programs, globally
Point of Sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP), the time and place where a retail transaction is completed
Point (mortgage), percentage sometimes referred to as a form of pre-paid interest used to reduce interest rates in a mortgage loan
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), price level of significance in analysis of a financial market that is used as a predictive indicator of market movement
Royalty points, way of sharing profit between companies and unit holders
Vigorish point, commission charged on a gambling bet or loanshark's loan

Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE), a network protocol for encapsulating Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames inside Ethernet frames
Point, data element in a SCADA system representing a single input or output
Points, contact breaker in an ignition system
Points, railroad switch (British English)
Point, clock position of an object seen from a moving vessel or aircraft on an imaginary horizontal clock with 12:00 at the front; e.g., two points to starboard is 2:00
Points of sail, sailing boat's course in relation to wind direction
Point system (driving), system of demerits for driving offenses
Projectile point, hafted archaeological artifact used as a knife or projectile tip
Public Oregon Intercity Transit, styled POINT, a public transit system

Point (coat color), animal fur coloration of the extremities
Point (surname)
Make a point or come to a point, a hunting term referring to a pointing dog's standing rigid and facing the prey
Point mutation, change in a single nucleotide
Take point (or walk point, be on point, or be a point man), to be the lead, and likely most vulnerable, soldier, vehicle, or unit in a combat military formation