tipping point

noun

: the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place

Examples of tipping point in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Analysts say the meeting could pose a tipping point for their fraught ties. —Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 21 May 2025

Secondary stability isn’t concerned with rocking back and forth, but with the literal tipping point of the kayak. —Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 May 2025

The Amazon rain forest is dangerously close to a tipping point that could rapidly reshape not just the world’s most famous rainforest biome but the whole planet. —Justin Worland, Time, 9 May 2025

Measles continues to spread in the United States, with over 900 cases nationwide, putting the country at a tipping point for the return of endemic measles for the first time since it was declared eradicated 25 years ago, new research warns. —Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for tipping point

• counterpoint
• disappoint
• multipoint
• needlepoint
• reappoint
• adjoint
• anoint
• appoint
• checkpoint
• conjoint
• disjoint
• endpoint