What is "initial points"

Usage examples of "initial points".

Using an inertial navigation system updated by satellite navigation, the Wolverine missiles flew to preprogrammed bomb run initial points, then activated infrared and millimeter-wave radar sensors, looking for targets.

Traveling eight hundred kilometers per hour, the missiles crossed into Afghanistan and streAed toward their preprogrammed targetacquisition initial points over twenty-eight hundred kilometers away.

After reaching their initial points three-and-a-half hours later they would activate their terminal radar-horning sensors, then for the last two hundred kilometers of their flight seek their individual targets, the nineteen auxiliary vessels and escorts surrounding the Nimitz.

But then he began moving the four terms around the initial points of a Greimas semantic rectangle, a structuralist schema with alchemical ancestry, which proposed that no simple dialectic was enough to indicate the true complexity of any cluster of related concepts, so that it was necessary to acknowledge the real difference between something's opposite and its contrary.

Get my own boys spread out to their initial points as fast as possible by shortest routes.

But then he began moving the four terms around the initial points of a Greimas semantic rectangle, a structuralist schema with alchemical ancestry, which proposed that no simple dialectic was enough to indicate the true complexity of any cluster of related concepts, so that it was necessary to acknowledge the real difference between something’.