pov
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of POV (“point of view”).
Example Sentences
- "By this time we might suspect that he had not been looking at her in the previous shot, and that the bird shot had been from his pov."
- "From his pov, we see Boom Boom Grossman, 60, huge ex-pug Jack Dempsey look-alike with meat-hook hands and meat-pie face."
- "When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds."
- "A female point-of-view (pov) character is not necessarily written from the perspective of a female gaze. […] A pov character is a character through whose eyes and perspective we follow the action of the story."
- "The film takes us immediately to Oscar’s pov, complete with momentary ‘blackouts’ as he blinks. […] Soon, still from Oscar’s pov, he begins lighting up a form of hallucinatory drug, and after a seemingly interminable number of attempts, begins to achieve the high he was seeking."
- "Who would dare theorize the history and practice of jazz without taking into account its significant composers, vocalists and instrumentalists from their pov?"