The pitch point is the point of tangency of two pitch circles (or of a pitch circle and pitch line) and is on the line of centers.
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“It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point to love.”
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