punctiform [PUNK-tuh-form] adjective (TWITO, page 118)
Shaped or formed like a point or dot
"Each of his ideas would vanish in the act of awakening its successor; his mind (if such it could be called)would be shut up to the punctiform instant...."
--William James, M.D., "The Association of Ideas", in Popular Science (1880)

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