boiling point
noun
1
: the temperature at which a liquid boils
2
a
: the point at which a person becomes uncontrollably angry
b
: the point of crisis : head sense 17b
matters had reached the boiling point
Examples of boiling point in a Sentence
The boiling point of water is 212° Fahrenheit or 100° Celsius.
when the situation reached the boiling point, the President had no choice but to order out the National Guard
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Even engineering heavyweights and frontier labs are losing ground as users are demanding more than hyperscalers are prepared to deliver—a tension that’s reached a boiling point as teams like OpenAI race to ship both breakthrough capabilities and unprecedented uncertainty at the same time.
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Sumeet Vaidya, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
With your savvy planetary ruler, Mercury, meeting both Saturn and Mars in your 11th house of community, tensions among friends, collaborators or within a larger community could reach a boiling point.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
Raising the boiling point of the electrolytes could open the door to true all-climate applications, making the technology viable across a wider range of environments.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, the challenge-less Red Sox could do nothing about several overturn-able pitches, and by the top of the eighth the situation reached a boiling point.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
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Sumeet Vaidya, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
With your savvy planetary ruler, Mercury, meeting both Saturn and Mars in your 11th house of community, tensions among friends, collaborators or within a larger community could reach a boiling point.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
Raising the boiling point of the electrolytes could open the door to true all-climate applications, making the technology viable across a wider range of environments.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, the challenge-less Red Sox could do nothing about several overturn-able pitches, and by the top of the eighth the situation reached a boiling point.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
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“Boiling point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boiling%20point. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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boiling point
noun
boil·ing point
ˈbȯi-liŋ-ˌpȯint 
: the temperature at which a liquid boils
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