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Synonyms for pin point

Grammar : Noun
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Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪnˌpɔɪnt

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Définition of pin point

Origin :
  • also pin-point, "point of a pin," 1849, from pin (n.) + point (n.). Taken into aeronautics in sense "place identified from the air," hence verb meaning "locate precisely" (1917), which originally was aviators' slang. Related: Pinpointed; pinpointing. As an adjective, "performed with precisional accuracy," 1944, originally of aerial bombing.
  • As in point : noun sharp end, top, end of extension
  • As in mucro : noun point
  • As in mucronation : noun point
Example sentences :
  • Painfully the arrow (in this case a pin point) was taken from the eye.
  • Extract from : « Revolutionary Reader » by Sophie Lee Foster
  • "We've got to pin point this thing," I said as we went back to her living room.
  • Extract from : « The Right Time » by Walter Bupp
  • The electric potentiality of Niagara in a pin point of dust of yellow fire.
  • Extract from : « The Metal Monster » by A. Merritt
  • The Moon had dwindled to a pin point of light beside the crescent Earth.
  • Extract from : « Brigands of the Moon » by Ray Cummings
  • A second flash—giant and terrible nearby—a pin point of light among the stars.
  • Extract from : « A Matter of Importance » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • It was a strain as delicate as a pin point ray of light in a dark room, but it made Kate tremble.
  • Extract from : « The Seventh Man » by Max Brand
  • His burning cigarette made a pin point of light as he tossed it into the river.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Pact » by Mildred A. Wirt
  • The electron moon paled to the size of a pin point, then went out.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
  • The compressed air drives the oil to the lantern, up through that burner in a hole hardly big enough to take a pin point.
  • Extract from : « Some Naval Yarns » by Mordaunt Hall
  • Practically, a dot may be larger than a pin point and may have definite shape—a square dot or a round dot.
  • Extract from : « Applied Design for Printers » by Harry Lawrence Gage

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