The Point reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Point

The word point can refer to:

• a point in geometry (an entity that has a location in space but no extent)
• an element in a set
• a related concept in topology: see point (topology)
• solution point
• a unit of angular measurement; see navigation
• in typography, approximately 1/72 inch; on computer displays it is often the height of one or four pixels
• scoring
• railroad switch

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