Definition of "points" []

• Plural form of point. (noun)
• Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another. (noun)
• The two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow current to flow or not through the ignition coil. Each surface is called a point singular (there's usually a moving point which is pushed by the distributor cam and a fixed point which isn't), but they're made together in a unit and serviced or replaced that way and are hence normally called points plural. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of point. (verb)

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• "Just to give one example: he accepts something like a coloured picture, with all the different colour points, traveling in parallel up the optic nerve and has to concern himself with how many colour ˜points™ could travel in parallel in a single nerve (Czolbe 1855: 33)."
• "The crossing points are called “nodal points”, the closed sections between the nodal points a “mesh” and each part of the line “mesh line”."
• "In blazon a Label is supposed to have three points; but, if more, the number is to be specified; thus, No. 271 is simply “_a Label_,” but No. 272 is “_a Label of five points_.”"