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(1) To move the cursor onto a line or image on screen by rolling a mouse across the desk or by pressing the arrow keys.

(2) In typography, a unit equal to 1/72nd of an inch, used to measure the vertical height of a printed character.

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point - 1. (Sometimes abbreviated "pt") The unit of length used in typography to specify text character height, rule width, and other small measurements. There are six slightly different definitions: Truchet point, Didot point, ATA point, TeX point, Postscript point, and IN point. In Europe, the most commonly used is Didot and in the US, the formerly standard ATA point has essentially been replaced by the PostScript point due to the demise of traditional typesetting systems and rise of desktop computer based systems running software such as QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Pagemaker. There are 20 twips in a point and 12 points in a pica (known as a "Cicero" in the Didot system). Different point systems.