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stopping point

n. the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season" [syn: finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion, close]

Usage examples of "stopping point".

There he waited until the silver-haired man reached a stopping point and set the rough-forged blade on the forge shelf to anneal.

We can stay on this side of the river, but I thought it would be a good stopping point.

If this is a good stopping point, can we continue again tomorrow night?

The false cinder cone loomed a hundred yards beyond their stopping point, the edge of a bone-white desert wash that had been filled with water just ten days before.

It had been sizable before the Seanchan came, a stopping point for the merchant trains heading east, with over a dozen inns and nearly as many streets.

That way if he found a marginal planet, the colonists could use it as a stopping point.

Having come to a convenient stopping point, Jack closes the book and yawns.

Then suddenly, as it neared stopping point, reversing and only then actually reflecting its own direction of course.

When they discovered that they had reached the stopping point for the night, they insisted Marty read the new verses again, and Paige found that she, too, wanted to hear the lines a second time.

Below this stopping point was what looked like a shallow lake of drying, tacky oil.

He wanted them to get their hopes up and then lose them as the expected stopping point didn't occur.

He pushed until most of him was inside me, and there was a stopping point.