fixed point

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physics a reproducible invariant temperature; the boiling point, freezing point, or triple point of a substance, such as water, that is used to calibrate a thermometer or define a temperature scale

maths a point that is not moved by a given transformation

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Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!
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To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
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Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link or infrared pointer at this point.
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But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.
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This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
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As men fixed in the grip of nightmare, we were powerless—unable to do anything but wait.
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Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.
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The Princess still kept her eyes fixed on Louis, while, in a suppressed and unsteady voice, she answered her governess.
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His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.
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