point system

noun

Printing. a system for grading the sizes of type bodies, leads, etc., that employs the point as a unit of measurement. Compare point ( def 48a ).
any of certain systems of writing and printing for the blind that employ embossed symbols for letters.
a system of promoting students by an evaluation of their work on the basis of points representing quality of achievement.
Bedaux system.

point system

printing a system of measurement using the point as its unit See point
a system for evaluation of achievement, as in education or industry, based on awarding points
any system of writing or printing, such as Braille, that uses protruding dots

There was a point system, is all you need to know at this juncture.

The second, the basing point system, is found throughout the southern states east of the Mississippi.

This last argument is the main economic defence of the southern basing point system.

This basing point system, although not absolutely confined to the South, has been more highly developed here than elsewhere.

The so-called basing point system is the second fundamental peculiarity of southern rate adjustment.

A number of economic defences for the basing point system have been urged by the carriers at different times.

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