adj.
subject to debate or dispute:
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a moot point.
v.
raise for discussion.
n.
- historical an assembly held for debate, especially in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times.
- Law a mock judicial proceeding set up to examine a hypothetical case as an academic exercise.
Etymology
OE mōt ‘assembly or meeting’ and mōtian ‘to converse’, of Gmc origin; rel. to meet1.
