present participle of four-point

(obsolete) A thing to be pointed at in derision; a laughing stock.

plural of pointing-stock

present participle of point up

present participle of price point

An interchange between a highway (free-flowing) and a street (with traffic signals) which allows traffic to proceed from either direction on each road to either direction on the other, and which is governed by only one set of traffic signals.

Dated form of possession is nine-tenths of the law.

(idiomatic) Used to apologize for a possibly impolite statement one is making.

plural of single-point urban interchange

(quantum chromodynamics) In quantum chromodynamics with massless flavours, where the number of flavours is sufficiently small (i.e. small enough to guarantee asymptotic freedom, depending on the number of colours), an interacting conformal fixed point of the renormalization group where the value of the coupling is less than one (i.e. one can perform perturbation theory in weak coupling).