powerpoint
/pˈaʊɚpˌɔɪnt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A software package from Microsoft used to make slideshow presentations.
noun
An electronic slide presentation created using the program Microsoft PowerPoint.
noun
noun
Example Sentences
- "Proficiency in PowerPoint continues to be required for almost every office job."
- "Can I be candid? I think I am on this group because none of you can do PowerPoint. I am literally going to draw some rectangle shapes for the pillars. We won’t be having feathers or whatever. And there’s a limit to how many pillars will fit on a single slide."
- "PowerPoint presentation"
- "Sitting through his PowerPoints is a dull, but necessary, requisite for the job."
- "The PowerPoint is the summation of Rove's thinking about the 2006 elections, in which Republicans lost 30 seats in the House and six in the Senate"
- "Alas, our PowerPoint Generation gravitates to bullet points and two-dimensional bar charts, even as we stumble our way through this multidimensional universe."
Etymology
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Computing.