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staging ground (These camps are the staging ground for Russian military equipment transported into Ukraine, soon to join the separatist arsenal, and for Russian soldiers mobilized across Russia to cross into Ukraine. 4uzhoj); cut-off point (iwona); point of departure (We view it as a point of departure for a broader discussion); springboard (Lidka16); initial mark (ZakharovStepan); starting place (Belka Adams); pivot point (Дмитрий_Р); departure; starting point; denial; jumping-off point (Anglophile); beginning point (vladim_i_rich); central point (alemaster); commencement; entry point (naiva); ground zero (Montgomery became ground zero for the civil rights struggle. (The Power of Habit) yurbel); shooting-off point (The Café is meant to be a shooting-off point from which Nuyorican artists, poets, and playwrights take shared themes and messages of community, understanding, and the breaking down of arbitrary separators of color, among others, and spread them outside the environment of the Café  wikipedia.org Mr. Wolf) |
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term |
| avia. |
base; base point |
| banc. |
benchmark (raf) |
| dipl. |
initial stage; point of reference (bigmaxus) |
| electr. |
square one |
| jur. |
reference point (Шандор) |
| makár. |
fiducial point; entering wedge; point of departure (в рассуждении и т.п.); terminus a quo |
| maner. |
point of beginning (I'm not going to let myself get euphoric but, still, I have a feeling we might be at a point of beginning. There did seem to be something of a chemistry between the General Secretary and myself. Certainly it was different from talking to Gromyko. (Ronald Reagan's letter, Feb 10, 1986) -- мы находимся в отправной точке ART Vancouver) |
| mat. |
origin; origin (Our point of departure is the formula (2.6) .); starting point (for) |
| medic. |
starting point (процесса) |
| mil. |
jumping-off place |
| psic. |
datum; starting point (пункт) |
| tec. |
home position |
| uso m. |
scene starter (Сергій Саржевський) |
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on (наречие) |
