FREEZING POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freezing point mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREEZING 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 ("freezing point" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

That's one hundred and six below freezing point—too cold for travelling, eh?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

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 device designed to generate a liquid environment that is below the freezing point of normal biological tissues (usually -50 to -70 degrees celsius).

(Cryobath, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrated salts would lower the freezing point of a liquid brine, just as salt on roads here on Earth causes ice and snow to melt more rapidly.

(NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars, NASA)

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 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)

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)