Definition of "pinpoint" []

• Something extremely small or trifling. (noun)
• A very small or sharp point: a pinpoint of light. (noun)
• A point on a map marking a precise location or target. (noun)
• To locate or identify with precision. (verb-transitive)
• To take precise aim at: pinpoint a target. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "They will try to carry out what they call pinpoint strikes of using their ground forces."
• "Now, the Israeli military saying this is still what they call pinpoint operations targeting, those rocket launches, although at this point, around 1,400 rockets have landing in northern Israel."
• "But, in the past few weeks, we have been witnessing Israel conducts what it calls pinpoint operations in and out of Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon."