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takeoff means the moment when an airplane, helicopter, etc., leaves the ground and begins to fly "Despite much talk of the 'postgenomic' era, the publication of the human genome now appears to be a taking-off point in the demand for genome sequencing, starting with other yeasts, invertebrates, and mammals for comparative genomics." Brent, 2016 Trends in Genetics Also see another idea derived from economic usage of 'take-off point' from the American economic historian Walt W. Rostow's   Stages of Economic Growth   (1953) "take-off point."   A Dictionary of Sociology . . Retrieved November 10, 2016 from Encyclopedia.com:   http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/take-point