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View synonyms for turning point

turning point

noun

  1. a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
  2. a point at which something changes direction, especially a high or low point on a graph.
  3. Surveying. a point temporarily located and marked in order to establish the elevation or position of a surveying instrument at a new station.


turning point

noun

  1. a moment when the course of events is changed

    the turning point of his career

  2. a point at which there is a change in direction or motion
  3. maths a stationary point at which the first derivative of a function changes sign, so that typically its graph does not cross a horizontal tangent
  4. surveying a point to which a foresight and a backsight are taken in levelling; change point
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of turning point1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

The iPod, which launched in 2001, marked a turning point for the company, revolutionizing the way the world listens to music.

There’s a case to be made that 2020, for all the sacrifices it demanded and tragedies it inflicted, could at least mark a turning point on climate change.

This proved a significant turning point in the Senate for Democrats, however, because half of these seats would be filled by Republicans.

Apple, for example, is not-so-secretly developing a pair of AR glasses, which they hope will deliver a mainstream turning point for the technology.

The turning point came in the fall, as the temperature dropped.

From Fortune

The Butterbrief, issued by Pope Innocent VIII, was a turning point for the then bland Stollen, which gradually became sweeter.

“Here It Goes Again” was a turning point for how people thought about the band.

A turning point came some 25 years ago, when her close friend Carol contracted ovarian cancer.

“A turning point in my life was when I watched the movie Titanic,” Yeonmi told the audience at the Oslo Freedom Forum.

In the book, I have an interesting turning-point conversation with historian H.R. Trevor-Roper.

He was very calm over it, was Jean Baptiste; but the turning point in his life had come.

Sir Matthew Fleet's visit seemed like a turning-point with the May family, rousing and giving them revived hopes.

In consequence of these reflections a great change comes over him, which is the turning-point of his history.

It is the high-water mark of the Rebellion,—a turning-point of history and of human destiny!

We come now to the great turning point in the modern history of Ireland-the Union.

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