adjective

• (comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull.
• (comparable) Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
• (not comparable) In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
• (comparable, of a comment or inference) Directed negatively at a person or topic.
• (topology, algebraic topology, of a topological space) That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.