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

It is due to an empty space, a dead point in memory, or in consciousness, that produces a defective idea or gives one no idea at all of what has happened.

From The Education of the Child by Key, Ellen

If its speed was utterly annulled on this dead point, a decided movement toward the moon would suffice, however slight, to determine its fall.

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