point of departure

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English

Noun

point of departure (plural points of departure)

  1. (travel) Synonym of starting point
    • 2021 January 23, 刘强, “Greater Bay Airlines applies to HKSAR for routes”, in China.org.cn‎, retrieved 2021-02-01:
      […] the point of departure is Hong Kong International Airport.
  2. (formal, figuratively) of abstract processes that can be compared to a voyage: initial circumstances. Frequent collocations include, but are not limited to:
    • state of affairs, viewpoints at the beginning of rounds of negotiations or discussions in general
      2021 January 17, Kathija Yassim, “An experiment in what school could be”, in Mail & Guardian‎, retrieved 2021-02-01:
      […] so “going back to the way things were” is not a useful point of departure.
    • set of presumptions in a line of thought, a theory
      2020 January 31, Felix Berenskoetter, “Anxiety, Time, and Agency”, in Forthcoming in International Theory‎, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, retrieved 2021-02-01:
      Its point of departure is the view that conceptions of agency are […]
    • separation from a mindset
      2021 January 26, Nayomi Munaweera, “What Kamala Harris means to women who are childfree by choice”, in Vox‎, retrieved 2021-02-01:
      […] choosing to be childfree was a huge point of departure from my community […]
  3. (toxicology) a dosage level at which additional administration of an agent significantly loses its efficacy
    Synonym: reference point
    • 2017 April 6, “What Is Point of Departure (POD) and How to Use It to Calculate Toxicological Reference Dose (RfD)”, in ChemSafetyPro‎, retrieved 2021-02-01:
      In toxicology, point of departure (POD) is defined as the point on a toxicological dose-response curve […] generally corresponding to an estimated low effect level or no effect level.

Translations

place where a journey starts — see starting point
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