waypoint

noun

waypoint

noun

Etymology way + point

1

Any mapped reference point on a route that can be easily identified.

  • [T]hey made their way back to the Grace where Jen was hunched over her console setting the waypoints for their trip to Hudson Bay.2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 41:
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