Any of the horizontal directions indicated on a compass. There may be 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or even 128 compass points on a compass, depending on its size and accuracy.

(basketball) A guard who is usually the shortest of the five basketball positions, and specializes in handling the ball, distributing it to the other players and generally running the team's offense.

(physics) The lowest temperature at which a liquid can form an ignitable mixture in air near the surface of the liquid. / (figuratively) A hotspot; a dangerous place of violent political unrest.

The symbol !; an exclamation mark. / (figuratively) An elongated shape like an exclamation point.

(typography) A period/full stop ⟨.⟩ or middot ⟨·⟩ used to set off the decimal or fractional part of a number. / (typography, inexact) Any decimal mark, inclusive of commas, separatrices, etc.

(basketball, colloquial) Points scored from within the free-throw line.

(mathematics) A point on a curve where the gradient is zero. This point can be a maximum, a minimum, or a point of inflection.

(cricket, lacrosse) a fielding position between cover and point, about 15° forward of square; a fielder in this position.

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, square of the batsman's wicket and near the boundary / (cricket) a fielder in that position.

(databases) In a DBMS, a point in time at which all updates to a database, or group of records in a database, are guaranteed to have been written to disk, and the journal or log records of that action have also been so committed. Future updates may be undone to that point if necessary.