isolated point

American  

noun

1. Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.

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Example Sentences

Figure 19.12 An isolated point charge Q with its electric field lines in blue and equipotential lines in green.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Thus much concerns the character of this worship, which appears, like an isolated point, projecting from a religious system, otherwise confined to the western parts of Greece.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

How wide and fathomless seems the ocean, even from a single isolated point!

From Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose co”rdinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

From this isolated point they had a wonderful view of the Selkirks, with the main range of the Rockies in the distance.

From Among the Canadian Alps by Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone)