Pointe vs Points - What's the difference?
pointe | points |
(ballet) The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe.
* 2007': Classical dance manages to get along without too many momentous events shuddering beneath its '''pointe work. — ''The Guardian 5th Jan 2007, p. 3
(rail transport, British) Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.
(automotive) 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.
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