Dictionary

hit point en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɪt ˌpɔɪnt/ (US)
• (Australia) audio

Meanings

1. (qualifier:chiefly roleplaying games) A unit of damage, used to specify the amount of damage a character or object can withstand before it is defeated or destroyed.
   • Damage reduces the monster's hit points; if the monster's hit points drop to 0, it's defeated. 2005, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, “Playing the Game”, in Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
   • All characters have "hit points" that increase as they traverse the dungeon performing their brave deeds (unless they're smitten by some monster). 1986, MicroTimes: California's Computer Magazine, volume 3, Oakland, Calif.: BAM Publications, →OCLC, page 86:
   • You can bestow keys, gems, torches and powders, and restore gold, food and hit points. Hit points and experience points can be increased to a maximum of 9999, although you'd better be careful. 1984, InCider: The Apple II Magazine, volume 2, Peterborough, N.H.: IDG Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:
2. In ray tracing, the point in a scene at which a ray strikes an object.
   • The in/out status for the hit point is determined by examining the loop which has the subelement (edge or vertex) closest to the hit point. 1991, Michael John Muuss, Lee A. Butler, “Combinatorial Solid Geometry, Boundary Representations, and n-Manifold Geometry”, in David F. Rogers, Rae A. Earnshaw, editors, State of the Art in Computer Graphics: Visualization and Modeling, New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 213:

Forms

Synonyms

life point · health point · HP

Translations (21)

el επίπεδο ζωής (a unit of damage) · es punto de vida (a unit of damage) · de Auftreffpunkt (raytracing) · it punto danno (a unit of damage) · yue 生命值 (a unit of damage) · es punto de resistencia (a unit of damage) · de Trefferpunkt (a unit of damage) · es punto de golpeo (a unit of damage) · th เลือด (a unit of damage) · de Lebenspunkt (a unit of damage) · is líf (a unit of damage) · tr can (a unit of damage) · ja ヒットポイント (a unit of damage) · cmn 血量 (a unit of damage) · th พลังชีวิต (a unit of damage) · ru очки здоровья (a unit of damage) · fr point de vie (a unit of damage) · fi elämäpiste (a unit of damage) · es punto de salud (a unit of damage) · cmn 生命值 (a unit of damage) · nl levenspunt (a unit of damage)