▪ I. ˈpin-pointed, a.
[f. pin-point n. + -ed2.]
Having a fine or sharp point. Also fig.
| 1909 Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 10/6 The tiny pin-pointed mapping pen. 1931 E. S. Gardner Vanishing Corpse in Detective Fiction Weekly 15 Aug. 19/1 His eyes..gazed at Sidney Zoom with pin-pointed intensity. a 1936 Kipling Something of Myself (1937) viii. 230, I then abandoned hand-dipped Waverleys..and for years wallowed in the pin-pointed ‘stylo’. 1976 J. Wainwright Bastard ix. 122, I check the time... They'll demand pin-pointed answers to their nit-picking questions. |
▪ II. ˈpin-pointed, ppl. a.
[f. pin-point v. + -ed1.]
That has been pin-pointed.
| 1944 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 12 Apr.–26 Sept. 60 (caption) An attack by Mosquito aircraft..on what was probably the most pin-pointed objective which has ever been marked out as a target. |