point of origin

noun phrase

: the place where something comes from : the place where something originates

The package's point of origin was somewhere in the U.S.

the point of origin of the fire that burned the building down

Examples of point of origin in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After completing some levels of the game, players also had to shoot a flare back toward their point of origin — a dead-reckoning test analogous to the pointing-to-out-of-sight-locations task. —Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024

After the original device was disabled, Pupo and Castillo made an application to another provider to rent a new point of origin device, according to the complaint. —David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024

But the moniker is usually tied to a location near the point of origin, Reichling said. —Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 21 May 2024

This last journey echoed another royal passage, prompted by the death of a previous Elizabeth, that can reasonably be taken as a point of origin for the United Kingdom itself. —Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2023