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Definition of Extra point

1. Noun. In American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown.

Definition of Extra point

1. Noun. (American football) after a touchdown, an attempt to kick the ball through the goal posts to gain another point. ¹

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Literary usage of Extra point

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Mathematical Monthly by Mathematical Association of America (1922)
"It makes 4n + 4 real intersections with the circle, the extra point having a ... This extra point always crosses an asymptote at the same time as a vertex ..."

2. Generation of Multi-Resolution Maps by Jonas Persson (1993)
"First check whether some extra point must be inserted at/j,. ... If heading south, ie y»>y,+i, an extra point has to be inserted if y,..i<y/ (see figure ..."

3. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1841)
"The fourth improvement consists in the employment of an extra point-bar, ... To the mode of applying an extra point- bar to the warp-threads, ..."

4. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1841)
"The fourth improvement consists in the employment of an extra point-bar, to keep the warp-threads open during the swing of the carriages through them, ..."

5. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"The spade Jack counts one in addition to its being a spade, and the extra point so made takes the place of the count for " spades " in the ..."

6. A Set of Postulates for General Projective Geometry by Meyer Grupp Gaba (1915)
"Let the collineations be transformations on the n/2 sets like those of Case 1 leaving the extra point invariant together with the transformations that ..."

7. Handbook on American Yacht Racing Rules: An Explanation of Their Meaning and by Harry de Berkeley Parsons, Joseph M. Macdonough, Frederic O. Spedden (1915)
"One extra point will be awarded the winner of each race. ... The extra point for winning was considered by many as being too large a premium, ..."

8. Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts edited by C. John Ralph, John R. Sauer, Sam Droege (1998)
"For accumulation curves, the data included all points within the three plots as well as those from eight comparable extra point counts from another study on ..."

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