dead point

American  

noun

Machinery.

1. dead center.

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dead point British  

noun

1. another name for dead centre

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Etymology

Origin of dead point

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

At the engine's "dead point," Lincoln said, even a single turn is "extremely difficult."

From Time Magazine Archive

At the engine's "dead point," Lincoln said, even a single turn is "extremely difficult."

From Time Magazine Archive

In a few minutes more there was a dead point at the hedge-row.

From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Herbert, Henry William

"What we did not do, what we could not do on our first passage at the dead point, because the projectile was then endowed with too great a speed."

From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules

In this way, when a coil on one side of the rim is at its "dead point" and yields its minimum of current, the corresponding coil on the other side is giving out its maximum.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various