0 past simple and past participle of pinpoint
1 to find out or say the exact position in space or time of something:
This enabled the error to be pinpointed, and a subsequent correction to be made to the particular component of the system responsible for the error.
Some time between 36 and 42 years, the respondents pinpointed a high point of enthusiasm, energy and/or professional ambition.
This is evidenced by the fact that phonological features can be pinpointed to some inputs but not to others.
A number of other factors, such as, for example, modality and aspectuality, are pinpointed as being relevant to the judgements.
Most can be pinpointed to specific historical periods.
A village was pinpointed and describing and cataloguing how human speech the police investigation resources were turned is produced.
Early research on the development and change of an individual's stylistic repertoire pinpointed the vernacular as an important concept for linguistic research.
That these can be pinpointed as areas for future study is, however, a result of the systematic and detailed research reported here.
