"facing points" meaning in English

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      "word": "trailing points"
    }
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
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        "1": "p",
        "sg": "facing point"
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      "expansion": "facing points pl (normally plural, singular facing point)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 June, “Notes and News: Working and Locking Facing Points”, in Railway Magazine, pages 278–279:",
          "text": "Harrison said he had such a horror of facing points that for many years in the 160 miles between York and Berwick there were, except in Darlington and Newcastle stations, only three examples. [...] For some years now facing points have been practically as safe as any other part of the track and are regularly taken at high speed.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A set of points at which two routes diverge in the direction of travel."
      ],
      "id": "en-facing_points-en-noun-V~ZtX30M",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "points",
          "points"
        ],
        [
          "diverge",
          "diverge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A set of points at which two routes diverge in the direction of travel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-normally"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
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  "word": "facing points"
}

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    {
      "word": "trailing points"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "facing point",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p",
        "sg": "facing point"
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      "expansion": "facing points pl (normally plural, singular facing point)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Rail transportation"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 June, “Notes and News: Working and Locking Facing Points”, in Railway Magazine, pages 278–279:",
          "text": "Harrison said he had such a horror of facing points that for many years in the 160 miles between York and Berwick there were, except in Darlington and Newcastle stations, only three examples. [...] For some years now facing points have been practically as safe as any other part of the track and are regularly taken at high speed.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A set of points at which two routes diverge in the direction of travel."
      ],
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          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "points",
          "points"
        ],
        [
          "diverge",
          "diverge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A set of points at which two routes diverge in the direction of travel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-normally"
      ],
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        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
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