dead point
noun Machinery.
Origin of dead point
First recorded in 1820–30
Words nearby dead point
dead meat,
dead metal,
dead nettle,
dead of,
dead on one's feet,
dead point,
dead president,
dead pulp,
dead ringer,
dead run,
dead sea
Example sentences from the Web for dead point
The position of the connected point of the crank-arm in question at such an instant is called a dead-point.
Justice is the dead-point in a series of acts—the ideal point at which contrary forces neutralize each other to produce inertia.
Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas |Remy de Gourmont