point of entry
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6.0
- noun
- Specialized
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punto de entrada
- Understanding those commonalities makes poetry a point of entry into understanding the heart of applied mathematics, and makes applied mathematics a point of entry into understanding the heart of poetry.
Examples
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Joint recommends a single point of entry to research articles, regardless of whether it is through an institution repository or a research management system.
Academic text (2012) -
With this understanding, both poetry and applied mathematics become points of entry into understanding others and ourselves as animals who make and use symbols.
Academic text (2009) -
I would say the first thing we're doing is we're creating a doubling down on the podcast because it's our point of entry to make content.
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Understanding those commonalities makes poetry a point of entry into understanding the heart of applied mathematics, and makes applied mathematics a point of entry into understanding the heart of poetry.
Academic text (2009) -
"Such global concepts thread into the IEJ network through various points of entry, but are translated by activists in relation to particular geo-historical instances of environmental, economic, social, physical, and spiritual impact.
Academic text (2008) -
A major exception is the contamination of groundwater because slow lateral movement of water through underground aquifers sometimes carries materials hundreds of miles from their point of entry into the soil.
Academic text (1990) -
Cybersecurity experts are analyzing the point of entry that allowed the malware to infect the network.
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The IT team identified the point of entry used by the hackers to access sensitive data.
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After the breach, the company secured every possible point of entry to prevent further attacks.
Synonyms
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1.2
An opening or door used to go into a building
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7.9
An act of entering a place, a way to enter, or the right to enter
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'point' = a specific location and 'entry' = a place/opening for access, so a B1 learner who knows these words will understand it as the place or location where access occurs. Although used metaphorically in computing, this is a transparent extension of the physical sense and follows common cross-linguistic patterns.
Etymology
Point of entry paints a simple image: a point (a specific spot) of entry (a way in), like an open door, loose cable, or weak piece of software that lets a hacker or bad program get inside a system. So, it means 'a place, route, or weak spot through which an attacker or bad software can gain access to a computer or network'.