sweet spots

Noun

sweet spot (plural sweet spots)

1. Any place that is optimal for obtaining a certain desirable effect or result.
   • Here's a way to start improving your balance right now. Let's tune into a reference point, the place on which you can feel your weight concentrated, the spot that will always let you know whether or not you are in balance. I call this reference point the "sweet spot" of your foot. The sweet spot is...1991 January, Mariam Sodergren, “Private Lessons: Third in a Series: Better Balance”, in Skiing, volume 43, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Times Mirror Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 113, column 3
2. (figuratively) Any set of conditions that is optimal for obtaining a certain desirable effect or result.
   • Businesses hit a sweet spot—a place, time, or experience in which a company's brands, products and services, finances, leaders, and employees are in tune and in time with consumer neds, aspirations, and budgets—only when (no matter how global, or gigantic, the company) everything and everyone is...2007, Arun Sinha, “Growing around in Circles”, in Sweet Spot: How to Maximize Marketing for Business Growth, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 77
3. (euphemistic, slang) The clitoris, prostate gland, or other internal center of sexual pleasure.
   • Then he knelt over her and began to make her wet with his fingers, finding her sweet spot the way he used to, so brilliantly, finding it, working it, moistening his finger from his lips and from herself, setting the fire raging in her now.2008, Peter James, “2 November 2001 [chapter name]”, in Dead Man’s Footsteps, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished London: Pan Books, 2014, →ISBN, page 442
4. Any of several places on a bat, racquet, etc., with which to hit a ball, resulting in the latter rebounding with some optimal desirable effect, such as minimum vibration or maximum velocity.
   • He hit the ball with the sweet spot, resulting in a gapper.
5. (extended reality) The spot of a lens in where image clarity is perfectly clear and sharp.