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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The thermodynamic state at which three phases of a substance exist in equilibrium. The triple point of water occurs at a saturation vapor pressure of 6.11 millibar and at a temperature of 273.16 degrees K. (references) |
Chemistry | The temperature at which the solid, liquid and gas phases of a chemically pure substance may co-exist in equilibrium. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | An invariant point at which three phases coexist in a unary system. When not otherwise specified, it usually refers to the coexistence of solid,liquid, and vapor of a pure substance. (references) |
Weather | The intersection point between two boundaries (dry line, outflow boundary, cold front, etc.), often a focus for thunderstorm development.Triple point also may refer to a point on the gust front of a supercell, where the warm moist inflow, the rain-cooled outflow from the forward flank downdraft, and the rear flank downdraft all intersect; this point is a favored location for tornado development (or redevelopment). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The triple point is the temperature and pressure at which three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of a particular substance may coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.
For example, the triple point temperature of water is exactly 273.16 Kelvin (0.01 °C) and the triple point pressure is 611.73 pascal (ca. 0.006 atmospheres) and the triple point temperature of mercury is -38.8344 °C.
The triple point of water is used to define the Kelvin and the Celsius temperature scales; the number given for the temperature of the triple point of water is an exact definition rather than a measured quantity.
Note that the pressure referred to here is the vapor pressure of the substance, not the total pressure of the entire system.
See also equations of state.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Triple point."
Crosswords: TRIPLE POINT |
| Specialty definitions using "TRIPLE POINT": Kelvin temperature scale. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
triple point | 14 |
triple point water | 8 |
triple point technology | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "TRIPLE POINT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tripelpunkt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tripelpunt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | trippelipiste, kolmoispiste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | point triple. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tripelpunkt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τριπλό σημείο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | punto triplo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ipletray ointpay ponto triplo. (various references) punto triple. (various references) trippelpunkt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"TRIPLE POINT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tripple point. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-n-o-p-p-r-t-t" | |
-3 letters: petition, plottier, pointier, terpinol, triplite, troilite, trotline. | |
-4 letters: intitle, introit, lintier, lippier, loppier, nippier, nitrile, nitrite, nittier, pinitol, plotter, pointer, poitrel, politer, portent, potline, pottier, proline, propine, protein, retinol, ripieno, ripplet, tippier, tippler, topline, tortile, triolet, triplet, tripoli, trippet, tritone, tropine. | |
-5 letters: entoil, inlier, intort, iolite, lepton, linier, linter, lippen, lipper, litten, litter. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-n-o-p-p-r-t-t" | |
+4 letters: interpopulation, plenipotentiary, preimplantation. | |
+5 letters: postpresidential. | |
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