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View synonyms for pinpoint

pinpoint

[ pin-point ]

noun

  1. the point of a pin.
  2. a trifle; pinhead.
  3. a tiny spot or sharp point.

    Synonyms: define, identify, localize, spot



verb (used with object)

  1. to locate or describe exactly or precisely:

    to pinpoint the problem.

adjective

  1. exact; precise:

    pinpoint accuracy.

pinpoint

/ ˈpɪnˌpɔɪnt /

verb

  1. to locate or identify exactly

    to pinpoint a place on a map

    to pinpoint a problem

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. an insignificant or trifling thing
  2. the point of a pin
  3. modifier exact

    a pinpoint aim

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pinpoint1

First recorded in 1840–50; pin + point
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Example Sentences

These dental care appliances shoot a pinpoint jet of water at teeth to dislodge any food particles—particularly around the wires and brackets of orthodontic appliances.

New techniques, such as machine learning that can quickly winnow through multiple forecasts and pinpoint the most accurate one, may be able to accelerate that timeline.

From the previous points, you now know what metrics to track to pinpoint your problems with website traffic, backlinks, and content quality.

It also suggests that wastewater testing could pinpoint emerging outbreaks days earlier than other methods.

There’s no blood test to diagnose depression, no brain scan that can pinpoint anxiety before it happens.

You can almost pinpoint the exact date, or at least to the week, of when that joke was written.

Your doctor can help pinpoint any potential roadblocks and, in some cases, might prescribe medication to help you ovulate.

In this way the missile does not need pinpoint accuracy: widely spread supersonic shrapnel from the warhead is deadly.

What do you think, 10 years from now, you can pinpoint as those days for you?

And when it is time to fire, Israel retaliates with pinpoint accuracy.

Sometimes the Time Observatory would pinpoint an age and hover over it while his companions took painstaking historical notes.

They'd never find him because Time was too vast to pinpoint one man in such a vast waste of years.

As they walked he tried to pinpoint directions, but because of the darkness he could not do so.

It loomed ponderous, dully gleaming in the faint light of a crescent moon and pinpoint stars.

Far overhead there was one fleeting glimpse of a pinpoint of dull opalescence reflecting the rays of the dying sun.

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