英语词汇“tipping point”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

tipping point n. the point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important, and often irreversible change.ⓘ

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1957 Sci. Amer. Oct. 34 White residents who will tolerate a few Negroes as neighbors..begin to move out when the proportion of Negroes in the neighborhood or apartment building passes a certain critical point. This ‘tip point’ varies from city to city and from neighborhood to neighborhood.]

1959 N.Y. Times iv. 7/7 Exactly when the ‘tipping point’ of white acceptance will be reached will depend upon the attitude of the individual white parent and upon the general white community attitude.

1988 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 18 605 The critical point arrived when the Spartans began to believe that time was moving against them and in favor of the Athenians. A tipping-point or fundamental change in the Spartan perception of the balance of power had taken place.

2014 G. Vince Adventures in Anthropocene Introd. 10 Glacier melt at the poles could reach a tipping point at which sudden runaway melting occurs and sea level rises by metres.

单词	tipping point
释义	> as lemmas tipping point tipping point n. the point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important, and often irreversible change.ⓘ ΚΠ 1957 Sci. Amer. Oct. 34 White residents who will tolerate a few Negroes as neighbors..begin to move out when the proportion of Negroes in the neighborhood or apartment building passes a certain critical point. This ‘tip point’ varies from city to city and from neighborhood to neighborhood.] 1959 N.Y. Times iv. 7/7 Exactly when the ‘tipping point’ of white acceptance will be reached will depend upon the attitude of the individual white parent and upon the general white community attitude. 1988 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 18 605 The critical point arrived when the Spartans began to believe that time was moving against them and in favor of the Athenians. A tipping-point or fundamental change in the Spartan perception of the balance of power had taken place. 2014 G. Vince Adventures in Anthropocene Introd. 10 Glacier melt at the poles could reach a tipping point at which sudden runaway melting occurs and sea level rises by metres. extracted from tippingn.² < as lemmas
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