starting point

1. 1.

   earliest limiting point

   Synonymsterminus a quo

   Broaderbeginning

Questions about starting point

What does starting point mean?

starting point means "earliest limiting point".

What is another word for starting point?

Close synonyms include terminus a quo. 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 starting point a common word?

starting point 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.