point of origin
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
point of origin (plural points of origin)
- A place where something comes from or originates.
- 1941 October, “Reclaiming Permanent Way Material”, in Railway Magazine, page 436:
- In the United States the Santa Fe was a pioneer in centralising its scrap handling at Corwith, near Chicago, but after 1924 abandoned this plan in favour of sorting at the point of origin.
References[edit]
- “point of origin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.