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turning point
noun
- a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
- a point at which something changes direction, especially a high or low point on a graph.
- 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
- a moment when the course of events is changed
the turning point of his career
- a point at which there is a change in direction or motion
- 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
- surveying a point to which a foresight and a backsight are taken in levelling; change point
Word History and Origins
Origin of turning point1
Example Sentences
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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