Point or points may refer to:

Places

Point, Lewis Point ( gd, An Rubha), also known as the Eye Peninsula, is a peninsula some 11 km long in the Outer Hebrides (or Western Isles), Scotland. The majority of Point is connected to the rest of the Isle of Lewis by a narrow isthmus, one mile in l ...

, a peninsula in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland *

Point, Texas Point is a city in Rains County, Texas, United States. The population was 820 at the 2010 census. Geography Point is located at (32.931512, –95.870957). It is situated at the junction of U.S. Route 69 and Farm Roads 47 and 514 in northwestern ...

, a city in Rains County, Texas, United States * Point, the NE tip and a ferry terminal of Lismore, Inner Hebrides, Scotland * Points, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States

Business and finance

* Point (loyalty program), a type of virtual currency in common use among mercantile loyalty programs, globally *

Point (mortgage) Discount points, also called mortgage points or simply points, are a form of pre-paid interest available in the United States when arranging a mortgage. One point equals one percent of the loan amount. By charging a borrower points, a lender effec ...

, a 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 point A percentage point or percent point is the unit (measurement), unit for the Difference (mathematics), arithmetic difference between two percentages. For example, moving up from 40 percent to 44 percent is an increase of 4 percentage points, but a ...

s, used to measure a change in percentage absolutely * Pivot point (technical analysis), a price level of significance in analysis of a financial market that is used as a predictive indicator of market movement * "Points", the term for

profit sharing Profit sharing is various incentive plans introduced by businesses that provide direct or indirect payments to employees that depend on company's profitability in addition to employees' regular salary and bonuses. In publicly traded companies thes ...

in the American film industry, where creatives involved in making the film get a defined percentage of the net profits or even gross receipts *

Royalty points A royalty payment is a payment made by one party to another that owns a particular asset, for the right to ongoing use of that asset. Royalties are typically agreed upon as a percentage of gross or net revenues derived from the use of an asset o ...

, a way of sharing profit between companies and unit holders * Vigorish point, the commission charged on a gambling bet or loanshark's loan

Mathematics

Point (geometry) In classical Euclidean geometry, a point is a primitive notion that models an exact location in space, and has no length, width, or thickness. In modern mathematics, a point refers more generally to an element of some set called a space. Being ...

, an 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), a stationary point of a function of an arbitrary number of variables * Decimal point *

Point-free geometry In mathematics, point-free geometry is a geometry whose primitive ontological notion is ''region'' rather than point. Two axiomatic systems are set out below, one grounded in mereology, the other in mereotopology and known as ''connection theory ...

* Stationary point, a point in the domain of a single-valued function where the value of the function ceases to change

Measurement units

* Point (gemstone), 2 milligrams, or one hundredth of a carat *

Point (typography) In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a poi ...

, a measurement used in printing, the meaning of which has changed over time * Point, in hunting, the number of

antler Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family. Antlers are a single structure composed of bone, cartilage, fibrous tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels. They are generally found only on male ...

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 Measuring tape with inches The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to yard or of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth") ...

or 0.254 mm, a unit of measurement formerly used for rainfall in Australia *

Paris point The Paris point is a unit of length defined as . It is commonly used for shoe sizes in Continental Europe. The unit was invented by French shoemakers in the early 1800s. Its origin probably lies in centimetre being very close to inch; a French i ...

, 2/3 cm, used for shoe sizes *

Points of the compass The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sep ...

, one of the 32 directions on a traditional compass, equal to one eighth of a right angle (11.25 degrees)

Sports

Point (American football) Gameplay in American football consists of a series of '' downs'', individual plays of short duration, outside of which the ball is ''dead'' or not in play. These can be plays from scrimmage – passes, runs, punts, or field goal attempts (fro ...

Point (basketball) Points in basketball are used to keep track of the score in a game. Points can be accumulated by making field goals (two or three points) or free throws (one point). If a player makes a field goal from within the three-point line, the player sco ...

* Point (ice hockey) *

Point (pickleball) This glossary provides definitions and context for terminology related to, and jargon specific to, the sport of pickleball. Words or phrases in italics can be found on the list in their respective alphabetic sections. 0–9 ;0–0:See '' Zero� ...

* Point (tennis) * Point, fielding (cricket) * Point, in sports

Score Score or scorer may refer to: *Test score, the result of an exam or test Business * Score Digital, now part of Bauer Radio * Score Entertainment, a former American trading card design and manufacturing company * Score Media, a former Canadian m ...

Point guard The point guard (PG), also called the one or the point, is one of the five Basketball positions, positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position. Point guards are expected to run t ...

, in basketball *

Points (association football) Three points for a win is a standard used in many sports leagues and group tournaments, especially in association football, in which three points are awarded to the team winning a match, with no points awarded to the losing team. If the game is ...

Points decision A points decision is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts and others sports involving striking. Unlike normal decisions where there are three judges that agree on whic ...

, in boxing and some other fighting sports * The point (ice hockey), the location of an ice hockey player

Technology and transport

* Point, a data element in a

SCADA Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is a control system architecture comprising computers, networked data communications and graphical user interfaces for high-level supervision of machines and processes. It also covers sensors and ...

system representing a single input or output * Points, a contact breaker in an ignition system * Points, a railroad switch (British English) * Points, the 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 A point of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface. The principal points of sail roughly correspond to 45° segments of a circle, starting with 0° directly into the wind. ...

, a sailing boat's course in relation to wind direction * Point system (driving), a system of demerits for driving offenses * Projectile point, a hafted archaeological artifact used as a knife or projectile tip * Public Oregon Intercity Transit, styled POINT, a public transit system

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* ''Point'' (album), a 2001 album by Cornelius * ''Point #1'', a 1999 album of Chevelle * Point Music, a record label * ''Points'' (album), by jazz pianist Matthew Shipp * " The Points", a 1995 single and video from the ''Panther'' soundtrack * ''Point'' (Yello album), a 2020 album by Yello * "Point", a song by the American band Bright from their self-titled album

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* High card points, used for hand evaluation in contract bridge * ''

Le Point ''Le Point'' () is a French weekly political and news magazine published in Paris. History and profile ''Le Point'' was founded in September 1972 by a group of journalists who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of '' L'Express'', w ...

'', a French weekly * '' On Point'', a radio show * Point Broadcasting, a radio broadcasting company * Pointe technique, a ballet technique for dancing on the tips of toes * '' Take Point'' (2018), a South Korean action film

Other uses

* Point (coat color), animal fur coloration of the extremities * Point (geography), a peninsula or headland * Point (surname), a surname * Make a point or come to a point, a hunting term referring to a pointing dog's standing rigid and facing the prey * On point, someone who possesses abundant and various qualities of competence, leadership or style, or to specific acts which demonstrate such qualities * Point man, one who takes point (defined below) on patrol, the lookout in the commission of a crime, a defense position in ice hockey, or someone who leads the defense of a political position * Point mutation, a 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 * Point University, West Point, Georgia