Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In zoology and anatomy, a point; a dot; a pit; a papilla; some little place, as if a mere point, in any way distinguished.
- n. [capitalized] In conchology, a genus of geophilous pulmonate gastropods, type of family Punctidæ: so called on account of its minute size.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A point.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (anatomy) a point or small area
Etymologies
- Latin a point (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She is a good writer, though a bit of a smarty pants using words like "punctum" instead of "point".”
“I started this as 120 bpm to the punctum and adjusted as the episemas and text demand.”
“The Swede on the cusp of 50 can accept this. punctum on 12 March 2010”
“I am equally as scathing at “old lags” doing likewise. punctum on 12 March 2010”
“In Camera Lucida, Barthes distinguishes between the "studium" and the "punctum" of the photograph.”
“The studium denotes the cultural or political interpretation of the photograph; the punctum denotes the personally touching detail that establishes a direct relationship with the object or person within it.”
“As for punctum, I can nearly smell my mother's hair, almost feel the fabric of her dress, sense the lovable vulnerability of my little brother Neil (he's in the striped shirt).”
“Perhaps studium and punctum merge in one detail: look at my mother's hemline – she never wore a dress that short before or since.”
“It's all punctum – if there's any studium there you can have it for free and use it for a boring sociological thesis.”
“It's that punctum thing that Barthes talks about, I think, that's the coil & spring you talk about, and that's not about narrative.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘punctum’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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To a point
to the point
neb, nib, cusp, dot, betoken, nadir, bespeak, eutectic, punctilio, fulcrum, stretch a point, make a point and 69 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Zoological Terms
Terms used in Zoology
papilionaceous, actinost, gressorial, exuviate, nitid, trochal, demiss, loculus, crebrity, limes, pachytrichous, pachydactyl and 319 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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To Learn
paratonnerre, apophenia, aposiopesis, compline, rebarbatiive, comity, averruncate, apodictic, apophasis, farouche, accismus, abligurition and 157 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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Critical and Philosophical Terms
haecceity, aleatory, ontology, teratology, aporia, elective affinities, scholia, peroration, catachresis, architectonic, deixis, diegesis and 106 more...
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beautiful words
flesher, yakka, simnel, larrikin, petrific, parlando, sol-fa, acharnement, sunn, punctum, inflatus, exinanition and 14 more...
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neumatic
Neumes were the basic elements of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation. The earliest neumes were inflective marks which indicated the g...
punctum, virga, clivis, podatus, scandicus, climacus, torculus, porrectus, praepunctis, subpunctis, custos, mora and 2 more...
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Literary / Aesthetic
Gongorism, paracinema, avantronica, arrière-garde, chrestomathy, diorama, philological, ideographic, daguerreotype, litterateur, pasticcio, mimeticism and 59 more...
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brainstuff
words i make up or use while writing
paramodernism, revenant, transformative, epitelic, affection-image, becoming, becoming-grrl, nomadic, envagination, alchemical, apotropaic, filmgrimage and 36 more...
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justice's Words
juicy, nostalgia, vibration, cramp, duplicate, mauve, filament, pink, longing, utopia, vulva, punctum and 13 more...
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