schwerpunkt
See also: Schwerpunkt
English
Etymology
From German Schwerpunkt (“main focus, focal point, center of gravity”), from schwer (“hard, weighty”) + Punkt (“point”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: shvârʹ-po͝ongkt, IPA(key): /ˈʃvɛɹpʊŋkt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʃvɛəpʊŋkt/
Noun
schwerpunkt (plural schwerpunkts)
- main point, main target; point upon which the most effort is concentrated (e.g. during an attack)
- 2006 June 12, Terry Sweetman, “Kim Finds a Sore Point”, in The Courier-Mail, Brisbane:
- Should it be the schwerpunkt of Labor's attack or will it be an unproductive dilution of forces?
- 2004 June 25, Meir Ronnen, “Happy Families?”, in The Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem:
- In the only arty shot, the Dalai Lama, seen in silhouette, sits at the schwerpunkt of a Mondrian-like composition."
- 2009 February 1, Chris Herz, “A Century of a Propaganda as Specious as it is Mendacious”, in OpEdNews, retrieved 2012-09-25:
- Thus to have them exhausting their military resources in areas so far removed from the historic schwerpunkt of their empire is the best we can now hope for.
- 2012 April 23, Mark Tarver, “finding the schwerpunkt”, in Google, retrieved 2012-09-25:
- The schwerpunkt must be an application for which Shen is ideally suited; one where its unique strengths will make it difficult to mount any effective opposition to our advance and which we can develop quickly.
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