point-device

[point-di-vahys]

point-de·vice

[point-di-vahys] Archaic.
adverb
1.
completely; perfectly; exactly.
adjective
2.
perfect; precise; scrupulously nice or neat.

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English at point devis arranged to a point, i.e., to a nicety, to perfection; see device
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point-device
 
adj
1.  very correct or perfect; precise
 
adv
2.  to perfection; perfectly; precisely
 
[C14: perhaps from old French à point devis to the point arranged]

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