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

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dead point

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The speed retained had borne the projectile beyond the dead point.

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

But where we are at the foot of the rise it is a dead point for the artillery.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

They had then waylaid the present detachment, and were actually housed in perfect silence within their fort, when the mule of the trapper made such a dead point.

From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de

"Suppose we reach this dead point," asked Ardan; "what then is to become of us?"

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward