point-to-point

[ point-tuh-point ]

noun

1. a cross-country horse race between specified points, in which each rider is often free to select their own course between the points.

point-to-point

noun

1. 1. a steeplechase organized by a recognized hunt or other body, usually restricted to amateurs riding horses that have been regularly used in hunting
   2. ( as modifier )

      a point-to-point race

adjective

1. (of a route) from one place to the next
2. (of a radiocommunication link) from one point to another, rather than broadcast

Word History and Origins

Origin of point-to-point¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Written language is thus a point-to-point equivalence, to borrow a mathematical phrase, to its spoken counterpart.

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And these two classes sustain a point-to-point correspondence to each other—they are correlated.

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Perspiring Sportsman (who has been riding in fourteen-stone point-to-point race).

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Then, after a couple of minor events, a four-mile point-to-point race for hunters ridden by gentlemen in hunt uniform.

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The design name given, "butterfly," probably applies to the point-to-point large solid triangles, possibly to the rhomboids.

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