What is "pinpoint"

Usage examples of "pinpoint".

In 2000 the team that pinpointed the ancient shoreline near Sinope found a shipwreck from late antiquity in 320 metres of water, its wonderfully preserved hull an indication of the archaeological marvels that may lie elsewhere in the anoxic depths of the sea.

Overhead, the actinic pinpoint of CY Aquarii hit the weather dome and was diffused into a wide, soft white glow.

It was impossible to access a microsat, to modulate the shielding to prevent burnup on reentry, and then guide it to earth with such pinpoint accuracy that an attacking force less than fifty meters from the Resistance fighters would be wiped out, yet leave the other group untouched.

Once he had the location pinpointed it took him only minutes to get to the described intersection of Dardanian passageways.

It turned out that she had developed a severe skin rash in reaction to the dry shampoo we were using on her, but her skin was so oddly textured and miscolored that she was sick for two days before we could pinpoint the problem.

Instead of just taking her tray and going to sit down somewhere, out of the line of fire, Cara whirled around and around, trying to pinpoint exactly where the mooing was coming from.

In the meantime, one shuttlecraft would be stationed near the mines, another near the city, watching for energy surges, hoping a pattern of some kind would emerge in either location or that the location of the surges within the city could be pinpointed.

On duty at the new outpost that has replaced Point Vermillion, he reports a radiation flash that pinpoints the approaching Black Companion.

When subjected to an electrical current of 6 amperes, at 100 volts, the viruslike object abruptly emitted small pinpoints of light.

However, the evidence suggests that a massive B-52 strike that does not kill anyone or destroy anything is actually more powerful than a pinpoint attack that precisely obliterates a tank or bunker, because the terror of the former has a much greater impact on enemy morale than the impressiveness of the latter, and it is much easier and faster to eliminate a unit by causing its morale to break than by destroying all of its weaponry.

Just as baryons had slithered into dark matter potholes, so-on a much smaller scale - photinos collected in the pinpoint gravity wells of the new stars.

Marsmen from the original three ships had pinpointed the equipment, supply caches, and working areas of the belters as best they could.

Businesses, researchers and consumers now have access to the most valuable and hard-to-find information on the Web and can retrieve it with pinpoint accuracy.

We saw some evidence of this in our attempt, described in the preceding chapter, to pinpoint the location of elementary particles such as electrons: By shining light of ever higher frequency on electrons, we measure their position with ever greater precision, but at a cost, since our observations become ever more disruptive.

Sal, that you cannot pinpoint fingerprints that old anymore than I can --- can you?