panel point

noun

, Engineering.

1. a joint between two or more members of a truss.

Example Sentences

Several of the 50 media members who regularly cover the league and are on the voting panel point to passers this season, too.

From Washington Times

A panel point is the intersection of the centre line of a brace produced, with the centre line of a chord.

From Project Gutenberg

If a load be placed over any panel point, it causes that portion of the truss to sink, and produces an elevation of the corresponding panel point at the other end of the truss—thus producing a distortion, which change of form is resisted by proper counterbraces.

From Project Gutenberg