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| | definition of point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Two modifications of this are current in the United States: New York point founded on three bases of equidistant points arranged in two lines (viz., : :: :::), and a later improvement, American Braille, embodying the Braille base (:::) and the New-York-point principle of using the characters of few points for the commonest letters. |
 | | A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion. |
 | | To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort. |
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