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) In category theory, the concept of an element, or a point, generalizes the more usual set theoretic concept of an element of a set to an object of any category. This idea often allows restating of definitions or properties of morphisms (such as m ...

, 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) The carat (ct) is a unit of mass equal to or 0.00643 troy oz, and is used for measuring gemstones and pearls. The current definition, sometimes known as the metric carat, was adopted in 1907 at the Fourth General Conference on Weights and Meas ...

, 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) * Card stock#Measurements, Point, for describing paper-stock thickness, a synonym of ''mil'' and ''Thou (length), thou'' (one thousandth of an inch) * Point, a hundredth of an inch or 0.254 mm, a unit of measurement formerly used for rainfall in Australia * Paris point, 2/3 cm, used for shoe sizes * Points of the compass, one of the 32 directions on a traditional compass, equal to one eighth of a right angle (11.25 degrees)

Sports

* Point (American football) * Point (basketball) * Point (ice hockey) * Point (pickleball) * Point (tennis) * Point, fielding (cricket) * Point, in sports Score (game), Score * Point guard, in basketball * Points (association football) * Points decision, 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 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 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), ''Point'' (album), a 2001 album by Cornelius * Point No. 1, ''Point #1'', a 1999 album of Chevelle * Point Music, a record label * Points (album), ''Points'' (album), by jazz pianist Matthew Shipp * "The Points", a 1995 single and video from the ''Panther'' soundtrack * Point (Yello album), ''Point'' (Yello album), a 2020 album by Yello * "Point", a song by the American band Bright from Bright (American band Bright album), their self-titled album

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* High card points, used for hand evaluation in contract bridge * ''Le Point'', 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 * Take_point#Other_uses, 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