Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a point or dot; having the character of a point; located in a point.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a point.
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- adjective Having the form of a
point .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fluxus covers a surface area of 60 square meters (= 646 square feet), using 80′000 handmade Knit, in 5 colors; the lighting is provided by 5000 punctiform halogen lamps distributed in a network across the internal surface of the wave.
Grizzly Bear Table 2009
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If it is possible for something to have a property at a point, it does not follow that it is possible that something punctiform should have this property.
Determinates vs. Determinables Sanford, David H. 2006
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In all the cases in which comminution had occurred, some laceration of the dura, even if not more than surface damage or a punctiform opening, had resulted.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Fore wings acute; orbicular mark black, punctiform; reniform narrow, brown, bordered, excavated on the outer side; exterior border slightly convex.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Fore wings with three blackish, indistinct, slightly diffuse, zigzag lines, which are slightly bordered hindward with pale yellow; orbicular mark white, punctiform; exterior border slightly angular, hardly oblique, and slightly truncated on the fore half, extremely oblique and with two slight excavations on the hind half; fringe partly white.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Mr. Cheyne removed fragments both of external and internal tables, one of the latter having made a punctiform opening, not admitting the finest probe, in the dura-mater.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Fore wings slightly hooked, with an interior undulating blackish-brown line; orbicular mark black, punctiform; reniform white, black-bordered, forming a triangular spot and an anterior point; a small exterior white costa, with mark.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The radiometric survey shows a background of about 50 to 200 cps in total counts, as well as several punctiform anomalies of about 500 to over 3,000 cps over the entire area studied.
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Findings with regard to urinary stones were categorized as follows: definite stones, suspected stones (increased, sporadic, punctiform echogenicity in the kidneys or pyelocalyceal system), or no stones.
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The lighting is provided by 5000 punctiform halogen lamps, which is ironic (?) because the square meters White Gallery contains also comes to a clean-as-a-whistle 5,000.
Yanko Design 2009
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