n. The tip, point, or summit of anything.n. In geology, the top of an anticlinal fold of strata. [Pennsylvania coal-mines.] [This term as used in the U. S. Revised Statutes has been the occasion of much litigation. It is supposed to mean something nearly equivalent to outcrop (which see); but precisely in what it differs from outcrop has not been, neither does it seem capable of being, distinctly made out.]n. In mining, the landing-point at the top of a slope.n. In Roman antiquity, a symbolic ornament which the flamens and some other priests were required by law to wear.n. In projective geometry, the point determined by 3 planes.n. plural The abacusmarks.