WAYPOINTS Synonyms

• a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

• a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance

• the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)

• the ultimate goal for which something is done

• written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location

• the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape

• an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend

• a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land

• an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken

• some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something

• a distinguishing symbol

• a writing implement for making a mark

• a connecting point at which several lines come together

• any thickened enlargement

• (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

• (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system

• (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane

• the source of lymph and lymphocytes

• any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part

• (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network