power point

Digital slide deck

Power point has two main meanings depending on where you are.

In British and Australian English, a power point is an electrical outlet—a socket in the wall where you plug things in: There's a power point behind the sofa.

In global usage, PowerPoint (typically capitalized as one word) refers to Microsoft's presentation software, and by extension any slideshow presentation: She's putting together a power point for the meeting.

The software sense has become so dominant that power point now often means any digital slide deck, regardless of the program used.

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Opposites
document type/format

power pointspreadsheet

Tabular data organizer

Excel · plain text · database · PDF · Google Docs

communication style

power pointspoken word

Poetry delivered aloud

conversation · stream of consciousness · oral tradition

software application type

power pointMicrosoft Word

Text document application

Excel · spreadsheet · document · word processor · Microsoft Access

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G