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  1. adj. Occurring at each point of a given set.

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  • “The predicate symbols are interpreted ˜pointwise™, i.e. so that for example”

    First-order Model Theory

  • “On shabbat I played Oh Hell with Tal, and we went back and forth, pointwise, each round.”

    Scrabble With Rachel

  • “And what she may have gained pointwise on the paper would be a pittance.”

    Why So Evil?

  • “The game was very close pointwise with my chance at victory taken away by a last-turn dump of the ass on me durring the second round.”

    GAMING NEWS: End of TLC As We Know It (24 May 2006)!

  • “In '82 Yau and Peter Li wrote an exceedingly important paper giving a pointwise differential inequality for linear heat equations which can be integrated along curves to give classic Harnack inequalities.”

    Quick note: Yau vs New Yorker

  • “Past matches between Nodonn and Pallol had been very close, pointwise.”

    The Golden Torc

  • “These mutations too were found ordinarily to occur pointwise and randomly, in one gene at a time, without affecting an identical gene that might be present nearby in a homologous chromosome.”

    Hermann J. Muller - Nobel Lecture

  • “Hence there is no pointwise connexion between the two and it is meaningless to say that the molecules of the grass are in any place which has a determinate spatial relation to the place occupied by the grass which we see.”

    The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919

  • “But the Roman, first thrusting aside the shield of the enemy with his own shield, ran in close upon him, so that the man could not strike him -- his sword being over long -- and so driving his sword pointwise from beneath, smote him twice in the belly and in the groin, so that he fell his whole length upon the ground.”

    Stories From Livy

  • “Tables 1 and 2 show pointwise permuted P-values from those analysis with indication if the P-value over the model in question was Haplotype association analysis of SNPs of the genes having associations of P Haplotype association analysis of SNPs of the genes having associations of P Interaction analysis of TIMELESS variants with all other genotyped circadian genes.”

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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