melting point

noun

: the temperature at which a solid melts

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That material starts out as a filament which is heated to the melting point, then extruded out of a print nozzle to build up the robot's body in successive layers. Ben Coxworth may 28, New Atlas, 28 May 2025 While Robert Zubrin sketched out blueprints to construct a web of domes using super-strength Kevlar, Wordsworth made the remarkable discovery that hemispheres built of silica aerogel would heat up the interior by 50 degrees Kelvin, above the melting point of frozen H2O along the Martian equator. Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025 For instance, the graph shape of the melting point changes each time a polymer is heated and cooled. Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 21 May 2025 The air is mostly carbon dioxide, which, together with Venus's greater proximity to the sun, means an average temperature 860°F—or more than 200 degrees hotter than the melting point of lead. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for melting point

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First Known Use

1823, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of melting point was in 1823

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“Melting point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/melting%20point. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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melting point

noun
: the temperature at which a solid melts

Medical Definition

melting point

noun
melt·​ing point ˈmel-tiŋ-ˌ How to pronounce melting point (audio)
: the temperature at which a solid melts

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