low point

noun low points

1. A nadir; the time when things are at their worst. The low point of Carsley's time in charge, which will end after the Uefa Nations League meeting with the Republic Of Ireland at Wembley on Sunday, was the fiasco of the home defeat to Greece in October, a loss mainly engineered by his own madcap, non-striker, team selection.

   Opposite: high point

2. The lowest position that something attains.
3. The Ancient Greek punctuation mark ., sitting on the baseline, lower than the middle point and the high point, used for a medium pause. In the punctuation of the ninth century the shortest stop (answering to our comma) is the low point (.), the Greek ὑποστιγμή. Next in length to it is the middle point, at the same height above the line as the centre, for instance, of the letter o (⸳), the μέση στιγμή. Slightly longer, and answering

   Similar: low dot