point-to-point

[point-tuh-point] /ˈpɔɪnt təˈpɔɪnt/

noun

a cross-country horse race between specified points, in which each rider is often free to select his or her own course between the points.

Origin

1880-85

Examples from the web for point-to-point

Ibex does not offer direct, point-to-point luggage transfer but does have a rail-based luggage transfer service.
Written language is thus a point-to-point equivalence, to borrow a mathematical phrase, to its spoken counterpart.
We're also considering point-to-point laser communications, but the challenge there is the power drain would be enormous.
Of course this is exactly the sort of medium-length point-to-point travel for which air taxis are optimized.
We have been able to communicate with those robotic devices and with manned missions using point-to-point radio communications.
The mobile phone is moving in that direction, but it's obviously still point-to-point communication.
At the same time he was a master of point-to-point navigation, moving not by plan but by instinct, tempered by experience.
It operates short, point-to-point flights between secondary airports, sometimes over an hour's drive from city centres.
Low-cost carriers depend for their success on much more than a simple, point-to-point service with no catering or other frills.
Radio in those days was conceived mainly as a two-way point-to-point medium.

British Dictionary definitions for point-to-point

noun

(Brit)

a steeplechase organized by a recognized hunt or other body, usually restricted to amateurs riding horses that have been regularly used in hunting
(as modifier): a point-to-point race

adjective

(of a route) from one place to the next

(of a radiocommunication link) from one point to another, rather than broadcast

Encyclopedia Article for point-to-point

race run during the non-hunting season (February to May) by horses regularly ridden at fox hunts.

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