MELTING POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does melting point mean? 

• MELTING POINT (noun)
  The noun MELTING POINT has 1 sense:

1. the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid

  Familiarity information: MELTING POINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELTING POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

freezing point; melting point

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

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

 Context examples 

It is mostly found as a white, odorless, tasteless, waxy solid, with a melting point between 47C and 65C.

(Paraffin, NCI Thesaurus)

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 32 degrees and the boiling point is 212 degrees, placing the boiling and melting points of water 180 degrees apart.

(Degree Fahrenheit, NCI Thesaurus)