Dictionary Definition
pinpoint adj : meticulously precise; "pinpoint
accuracy" [syn: pinpoint(a)]
Noun
1 a very brief moment; "they were strangers
sharing a pinpoint of time together"
2 a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck
in the sky" [syn: speck]
3 the sharp point of a pin v : locate exactly;
"can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could
not nail the identity of the chromosome" [syn: nail]
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- The point of a pin
Adjective
Verb
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abode,
account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, allocate, apply to, area, ascribe to, assign, assign to, attach to,
attribute to, bearings,
bench mark, blame, blame
for, blame on, bring home to, charge on, charge to, close, collocate, confess, connect with, constant, credit with, crumb, delicate, deploy, determinate, diagnose, direct, dispose, distinguish, district, dot, drop, droplet, emplace, emplacement, even, exact, express, faithful, fasten upon, father
upon, fine, finger, fix, fix on, fix upon, fleck, flyspeck, get a fix, gnat, grain, hang on, hole, home in on, home on, identify, impute to, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, install, iota, jot, latitude and longitude, lay to,
lieu, locale, locality, localize, locate, location, locus, map, mathematical, microbe, micrometrically
precise, microorganism, microscopic, midge, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite, mote, navigate, nice, particle, pick up, pin down,
pin on, pinhead,
place, place upon,
placement, point, point to, position, precise, put in place, receive, recognize, refer to, refined, region, religious, religiously exact,
rigid, rigorous, saddle on, saddle
with, scan, scientific, scientifically
exact, scrap, set down to,
settle upon, severe,
site, situate, situation, situs, snip, snippet, speck, spot, square, stead, strict, subtle, sweep, tittle, triangulate, trigger, tune in, undeviating, unerring, vanishing point,
whereabout, whereabouts, zero in
on