How to Use point source in a Sentence

point source

noun

• At one time the smelters in Sudbury were the largest point source of sulfur dioxide in the world.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2020
• If the sun were a point source, like one of the nighttime stars, the moon would cast only one kind of shadow.
  — Michael E Bakich, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2017
• But even that precision is not quite enough to isolate point sources.
  — Anna Kuchment, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• The larger satellites can spot large leaks faster, while Iris or Claire could help pinpoint the exact point source.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Also, the fact that the kill occurred over a long stretch of the lakeshore indicates a single-point source of pollution was not the cause.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2021
• Krueger of the River Alliance said that his group will be watching to see how much of the reduction will come from non-point sources like farms.
  — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2018
• All sounds are point source, and immersion is now de facto standard.
  — Bobby Owsinski, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• In 2011 that patience began to pay off as the point source became lopsided at radio wavelengths, perhaps due to the emission of a jet.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 14 June 2018
• About 90 percent of the phosphorus and nitrogen from the Maumee watershed comes from what are called non-point sources, mainly farm runoff, the research showed.
  — John Seewer, The Seattle Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• This kind of distribution of light from a single-point source is called a point spread function (PSF) and is unique to each optical system.
  — Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
• The plan acknowledges the Clean Water Act’s role in slowing and reducing point source pollution.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2023
• The point sources proved to be 10 globular clusters—compact and spherical groupings of stars orbiting the galaxy’s core.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2018
• The point sources proved to be 10 globular clusters—compact and spherical groupings of stars, orbiting the galaxy’s core.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2018
• The new collaboration aims to track both specific point sources of methane emissions and broader dispersed sources, as well as emission rates and how emissions of the gas are changing over time.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• The hazard is particularly great in cities and near mining or other industrial point sources of lead.
  — Gabriel Filippelli, Quartz, 20 June 2019
• Notably, the diffraction spikes that surround the brightest stars of the image were formed when an intense point source of light interacted with the four vanes inside Hubble that support the telescope’s secondary mirror.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2023
• Capturing carbon where it's produced involves filtering out CO2 from a point source of emissions, such as a fertilizer plant, power station or gas field.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2022
• Through the Clean Water Act, point source pollution, which generally comes from an identifiable place such as a discharge pipe, can be regulated.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2021
• The students depicted or described at least one source of non-point source pollution and presented potential solutions.
  — Chris Smith | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• Now, because of the impaired waters listing, these point source polluters are facing a new wave of expensive pollution control upgrades that may do little to keep Green Bay's fish from suffocating in their own water.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Hubble's optical resolution is not high enough to actually 'see' the planet as a dot of light separate from its star, so instead, the telescope receives light from both objects that mix into a single point source.
  — Devin Powell, Scientific American, 11 July 2013
• Some areas in the Western United States had increases in particulate pollution from smoke that were about the same amount as the improvements in air quality from regulating factories and other point source pollution.
  — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• Between low-carbon cement, point source capture carbon dioxide, high-temperature thermal storage solutions and electrolyzers using only electricity and water to produce clean hydrogen, there’s no limit to the solutions hitting the market.
  — Daniel Goldman, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024