1. a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs; [syn: distributor point, breaker point, point]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
distributor point
n 1: a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its
projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark
plugs [syn: distributor point, breaker point, point]