Examples of point source in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web All sounds are point source, and immersion is now de facto standard. — Bobby Owsinski, Forbes, 18 Apr. 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 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 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 The hazard is particularly great in cities and near mining or other industrial point sources of lead. — Gabriel Filippelli, Quartz, 20 June 2019 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 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

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