Noun

• S: (n) geographic point, geographical point (a point on the surface of the Earth)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location) "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
• S: (n) punctum ((anatomy) a point or small area)
• S: (n) blind spot, optic disc, optic disk (the point where the optic nerve enters the retina; not sensitive to light)
• S: (n) navel, umbilicus, bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, omphalus (a scar where the umbilical cord was attached) "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton"
• S: (n) McBurney's point (a point one third of the way along a line drawn from the hip to the umbilicus; the point of maximum sensitivity in acute appendicitis)
• S: (n) node ((physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system)
• S: (n) antinode ((physics) the point of maximum displacement in a periodic system)
• S: (n) beginning, origin, root, rootage, source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being) "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
• S: (n) celestial point (a point in the heavens (on the celestial sphere))
• S: (n) center, centre, midpoint (a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure)
• S: (n) trichion, crinion (point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead)
• S: (n) chokepoint (a point of congestion or blockage) "the bridge is always a chokepoint at rush hour"
• S: (n) corner (the point where two lines meet or intersect) "the corners of a rectangle"
• S: (n) crossing (a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect)
• S: (n) focus (a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section)
• S: (n) geographic point, geographical point (a point on the surface of the Earth)
• S: (n) ground zero (the point of detonation (or above or below) of a nuclear weapon)
• S: (n) hot spot, hotspot (a point of relatively intense heat or radiation)
• S: (n) midair (some point in the air; above ground level) "the planes collided in midair"
• S: (n) abutment (point of contact between two objects or parts)
• S: (n) position, place (the particular portion of space occupied by something) "he put the lamp back in its place"
• S: (n) position (the appropriate or customary location) "the cars were in position"
• S: (n) pressure point (any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point)
• S: (n) military position, position (a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons)
• S: (n) corner (the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect) "the corners of a cube"
• S: (n) topographic point, place, spot (a point located with respect to surface features of some region) "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"
• S: (n) vanishing point (the point beyond which something disappears or ceases to exist)
• S: (n) focus, focal point (a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges)
• S: (n) hilum (the scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle)
• S: (n) focus, focal point, nidus (a central point or locus of an infection in an organism) "the focus of infection"