east point


East Point,

city (1990 pop. 34,402), Fulton co., NW Ga., an industrial suburb of Atlanta; inc. 1887. Textiles, machinery, chemicals, and paper are among the manufactures. A Point Univ. campus and a National Archives and Records Administration facility are there.

east point

See cardinal points.

East Point

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

The east point is sometimes used as an alternate expression to refer to the ascendant—the point where the eastern horizon intersects the ecliptic for any given astrological chart.

east point

[′ēst ‚pȯint] (geodesy) That intersection of the prime vertical with the horizon which lies to the right of the observer when facing north.