Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of point of reference English)
WordNet
n. an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved" [syn: point of reference, reference]
Wikipedia
Reference point or similar may refer to:
- In geometry, a point used to define the location of another point
- Reference range or reference interval, a range of values found in healthy persons
- Reference state, in chemistry
- Frame of reference
- A benchmark in various fields
- Benchmark utility level in Prospect theory
- Reference Point, a 1990 Acoustic Alchemy album
- Reference Point (horse), a 1980s British racehorse
Reference Point (26 February 1984– December 1991) was a British Thoroughbred race horse and sire. In a career which lasted from August 1986 to October 1987 he ran ten times and won seven races. As a three-year-old he overcame sinus problems before winning York's Dante Stakes, the Epsom Derby, Ascot's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, the Great Voltigeur and St. Leger in 1987. Notably, it wasn't until 2012 that another Derby winner contested the St. Leger; when Camelot attempted, and failed, to win the English Triple Crown. His final race of the season resulted in failure in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp, Paris when an abscess was later found to have been responsible for his below-par performance.
Usage examples of "reference point".
If we take formop as the reference point, then the higher stages are simply postrational, or transrational, or transpersonal.
Lessa must have decided it was four hundred Turns, and she has used it as the reference point to go back between times.
They had to have a reference point, a tiny island in the vast dark which they could share with whatever they might produce out of their neuron fibers, and Eng multipliers.
He jerked his gaze all around the room, as though desperately trying to find a familiar reference point.
We were told this wasn't to be a regular trip through time-merely a distortion of the reference point.
Damien glanced nervously at Tarrant, but there was no way of telling from the adept's expression if he could see anything useful, or if he was equally without a reference point.
The earth's gravity provides a reference point for our sense of balance and the resistance our muscles and circulatory systems need to ftmction property.
All of this traces back to the haphazard system of timekeeping prevalent before the 1884 Washington conference that established Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the international reference point and divided the world into 24 zones, the time in each of which was to differ by a whole number of hours from GMT.
That is to say, the ambulance would be stopped and used as a reference point while McCoy drove the weapons carrier ahead, making every effort to keep the tracks through the snow perfectly straight, moving as slowly as he could in third gear to conserve fuel.