Usage of "point of reference"

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An indicator that orients you generally.

Anything serving to indicate or point out, as a sign or token.

Usage of point of reference in English

They swarm near a fixed point of reference such as a branch. 
 The Irish Times 

Bereft of a point of reference, she had no choice but to ask. 
 Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens 

A previous epidemic is a natural, and encouraging, point of reference. 
 Reuters 

Games aren't the only geeky point of reference for the designer's new line. 
 Wired 

Use them as a point of reference when asking for directions. 
 Reuters 

As a point of reference, going to the movies cost just 75 cents. 
 Reuters 

As a point of reference, my friends are now in their early 30s. 
 Feminist dot com 

That means nothing, like I don't have any sort of point of reference. 
 Wired 

For me the striker is very important, he is a point of reference. 
 The Guardian 

She didn't have that immediate point of reference for one thing. 
 Mcgillivray's mistress 

They were a model family, a point of reference for intertribal and mixed marriage. 
 Say you're one of them 

So keep mentioning it as the authorised point of reference. 
 The Guardian 

There was no context, no anchor, no point of reference. 
 City of lies 

He realised that the Reaper's sense of time would be equally without point of reference. 
 Bedlam 

Some students tell me, "I need a photograph as a point of reference." 
 Gunn's golden rules 

But this is not Barack Obama's point of reference. 
 The post-american presidency: the obama administration's war on ... 

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Meanings of point of reference in English