VANTAGE POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vantage point mean? 

• VANTAGE POINT (noun)
  The noun VANTAGE POINT has 1 sense:

1. a place from which something can be viewed

  Familiarity information: VANTAGE POINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VANTAGE POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place from which something can be viewed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

vantage point; viewpoint

Context example:

from that vantage point he could survey the whole valley

Hypernyms ("vantage point" is a kind of...):

vantage (place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective))

 Context examples 

From that vantage point, you will survey all you’ve achieved since Saturn first entered your tenth house of honors, awards, and achievement in December 2017 and be proud of your accomplishments.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mercury and Venus transits are visible more often from Mars than from Earth, and Mars also offers a vantage point for seeing Earth transits.

(Mercury passes in front of the Sun, as seen from Mars, NASA)

Capturing the same clouds from two vantage points can help scientists calculate their altitude.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache, NASA)

From different vantage points, they could gain a better understanding of the chain of cause and effect of the loss of these high-energy electrons.

(FIREBIRD II and NASA Mission Locate Whistling Space Electrons’ Origins, NASA)

When an object transits, or passes in front of a star from the vantage point of the space telescope, a dip in starlight is recorded.

(K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet', NASA)

This shows the expansion from the explosion is still continuing about 450 years later, as seen from Earth’s vantage point roughly 10,000 light years away.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

Kepler detects a change in brightness when a planet passes in front of a star from the vantage point of the telescope.

(Light From An Ultra-Cool Neighbor, NASA)

These radio emissions from Jupiter have been known about since the 1950s but had never been analyzed from such a close vantage point.

(Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System, NASA)

Sitting still with few tasks to do while awaiting the team to return and provide its next commands, the rover had a rare chance to image its surroundings from the same vantage point several days in a row.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)

From the closer vantage point of the April 2016 observations, the team also determined the object’s rotation period, observing the changes in light reflected from JR1’s surface to determine that it rotates once every 5.4 hours (or a JR1 day).

(New Horizons Collects First Science on a Post-Pluto Object, NASA)