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Synonyms for pinpoint

Grammar : Verb
Spell : pin-point
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪnˌpɔɪnt

Définition of pinpoint

Origin :
  • also pin-point, "point of a pin," 1849, from pin (n.) + point (n.). Taken into aeronautics in sense "place identified from the air," hence verb meaning "locate precisely" (1917), which originally was aviators' slang. Related: Pinpointed; pinpointing. As an adjective, "performed with precisional accuracy," 1944, originally of aerial bombing.
  • verb define, locate
Example sentences :
  • From without the moonbeams flooded it, from within came no pinpoint of light.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • I caught the pinpoint gleam of what might have been a knife in her hand.
  • Extract from : « Beyond the Vanishing Point » by Raymond King Cummings
  • Tawney's face was a study of uneasiness, but he clearly could not pinpoint what the trouble was.
  • Extract from : « Gold in the Sky » by Alan Edward Nourse
  • As they walked he tried to pinpoint directions, but because of the darkness he could not do so.
  • Extract from : « Trading Jeff and his Dog » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • Not many hours before, it had been only a dust mote, a pinpoint of light in the void.
  • Extract from : « Sugar Plum » by Reginald Bretnor
  • She looked like a fairy god-mother, a pinpoint of fury in the eye.
  • Extract from : « Rose MacLeod » by Alice Brown
  • Kirk squinted craftily at the pinpoint of light with one closed eye.
  • Extract from : « Twelve Times Zero » by Howard Carleton Browne
  • From a tiny opening in the door jamb, a pinpoint of light appeared.
  • Extract from : « Twelve Times Zero » by Howard Carleton Browne
  • You haven't been able to pinpoint the Nipe that easily, have you?
  • Extract from : « Anything You Can Do » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • Yet I had won, and what they knew had narrowed my planet-wide search to a pinpoint.
  • Extract from : « The Door Through Space » by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Antonyms for pinpoint

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