point in time

Questions about point in time

What does point in time mean?

point in time means "an instant of time".

What is another word for point in time?

Close synonyms include point. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is point in time a common word?

point in time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.