Advertisement
Advertisement
tipping point
noun
- the point at which an issue, idea, product, etc., crosses a certain threshhold and gains significant momentum, triggered by some minor factor or change.
- the point in a situation at which a minor development precipitates a crisis:
Every infected person brings us closer to the tipping point, when the outbreak becomes an epidemic.
- Physics. the point at which an object is no longer balanced, and adding a small amount of weight can cause it to topple.
tipping point
/ ˈtɪpɪŋ /
noun
- the crisis stage in a process, when a significant change takes place
Word History and Origins
Origin of tipping point1
Example Sentences
Merchants Fleet CEO Keegan, citing Geoffrey Moore’s nearly 30-year-old tech-marketing classic, Crossing the Chasm, believes that the coronavirus has finally pushed e-commerce to a tipping point.
Stop Hate for Profit highlighted social media hitting its tipping point.
With the pandemic, plus the housing crisis, plus the homelessness crisis, we reached a tipping point locally.
With the waning of liberal democracy we are at a cultural tipping point in the west where opponents do not neatly line up as left versus right and where politics is increasingly defined by cultural values.
I think we are at tipping points now in where capital is going.
We have reached a tipping point where mega donors completely dominate the landscape.
Your death is a tragic bookend to a year touted as the “transgender tipping point.”
We have reached a tipping point in the culture where Americans are now trained to look to the rules instead of their own judgment.
I agree with you, but the youthful energy in the libertarian movement foresees a tipping point.
There is a feeling in the air that Pankisi is about to reach its tipping point.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse