BOILING POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boiling point mean? 

• BOILING POINT (noun)
  The noun BOILING POINT has 2 senses:

1. the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level

2. being highly angry or excited; ready to boil over

  Familiarity information: BOILING POINT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOILING POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

boil; boiling point

Context example:

they brought the water to a boil

Hypernyms ("boiling point" is a kind of...):

temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being highly angry or excited; ready to boil over

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

after an hour of waiting I was at the boiling point

Hypernyms ("boiling point" is a kind of...):

excitability; excitableness; volatility (being easily excited)

 Context examples 

In this scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit and the boiling point is 212 degrees, placing the boiling and melting points of water 180 degrees apart.

(Degree Fahrenheit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A unit of temperature of the temperature scale designed so that the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point is 100 degrees at standard atmospheric pressure.

(Degree Celsius, NCI Thesaurus)

The temperature scale defined by the values 0 degree Celsius for the freezing point of water and 100 degrees Celsius for the boiling point of water.

(Celsius Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

A thermometric scale named after the German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit, on which under standard atmospheric pressure the boiling point of water is at 212 degrees above the zero of the scale, the freezing point is at 32 degrees above zero, and the zero point approximates the temperature produced by mixing equal quantities by weight of snow and common salt.

(Fahrenheit Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of temperature of the temperature scale designed so that the freezing point of water is 32 degrees and the boiling point is 212 degrees, placing the boiling and melting points of water 180 degrees apart.

(Degree Fahrenheit, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers suspended individual graphene sheets in a low boiling point solvent, which is easily removed after deposition on the fabric, resulting in a thin and uniform conducting network made up of multiple graphene sheets.

(Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes, University of Cambridge)