orienting point

The Bildstocks are registered usually in maps, and so that represents an important orienting point.

The 1960s saw major developments as Dorchester Square became the central orienting point for the new downtown of modernist skyscrapers.

A 45-foot-high domed rotunda serves as an orienting point and houses the Hall of Fame honoree exhibits.

Derrida identified the flaw of structuralism as its reliance on a transcendental signifier; a symbol of constant, universal meaning would be essential as an orienting point in such a closed off system.