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Definition: Turning Point |
Turning PointNoun1. An event marking a unique or important historical change or one on which important developments depend. 2. The intersection of two streets; "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Hydrologic | A temporary point whose elevation is determined by additions and subtractions of backsights and foresights respectively. (references) |
Military & Defense | In land mine warfare, a point of the centreline of a mine strip or row where strips or rows change direction. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A surveying point on which a level rod is held, after a foresight has been made on it, and before the differential-leveling instrument is moved to another station so that a backsight may be made on it to determine the height of instrument after the resetting; a point of intersection between survey lines, such as the intervening point between two bench marks upon which rod readings are taken. It is established for the purpose of allowing the leveling instrument to be moved forward (alternately leapfrogging with the rod) along the line of survey without a break in the series of measured differences of elevation. Abbrev: TP b. A physical object representing a turning point, such as a steel pin orstake driven into the ground. (references) |
Statistics | In an ordered series, an observation which is a peak or a trough. When several contiguous values are equal, and greater than or less than the neighbouring values, a convention is required to determine which is regarded as the turning point, e. g. the middle one may be chosen. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Turning PointSynonyms: corner (n), landmark (n), street corner (n). (additional references) |
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Cause | Pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate cause, causa causans; straw that breaks the camel's back. |
Circumstance | Predicament; emergence, emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push; occurrence; turning point. |
End | Break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de grace, deathblow; knock-out, -blow; sockdolager. |
Limit | Ircumvallation; pillars of Hercules; Rubicon, turning point; ne plus ultra; sluice, floodgate. |
Occasion | Crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture; crisis, turning point, given time. |
Regression | Reversal, relapse, turning point;(reversion). |
Reversion | Turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a storm. alternation; (periodicity); inversion; recoil; retreat, regression, retrogression; restoration; relapse, recidivism; atavism; vicinism; |
Summit | Noun: summit, summity; top, peak, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height, pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point; turn of the tide, fountain head; water shed, water parting; sky, pole. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Turning Point |
| English words defined with "turning point": crisis, critical ♦ decisive, desperate ♦ heroic ♦ pylon ♦ road to Damascus ♦ Verticle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "turning point": Environmental Kuznet's Curve. (references) |
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Screenplays | Julia Roberts said that the turning point in their marriage was when she realized that she was Julia Roberts and that she was married to Lyle Lovett. (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Turning Point (1952) His Turning Point (1915) The Turning Point (1914) | |
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Business | The congressional elections were a historic turning point. (references) | |
The turning point came in 1948, when the Soviets withdrew from the Four Power governing bodies and blockaded Berlin. (references) | ||
An important turning point was reached in 1977 with the discovery of a gigantic gas deposit in Loma de la Lata in the Neuquen Basin. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kiribati | The battle was a major turning point in the war for the Allies. (references) |
Bolivia | Bolivia's defeat by Paraguay in the Chaco War (1932-35) marked a turning point. (references) | |
Nigeria | Abdulsalami Abubakar in June 1998, marked a turning point in U.S.-Nigerian relations. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mexico | The observers described the election as a historic turning point and made recommendations for further electoral reform. (references) |
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Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The developing nations are also at a turning point. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We have come to a turning point, a moment for hard decisions. |
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| Language | Translations for "turning point"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pikë kthese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نقطة تحول (watershed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | криза (attack, brunt, crisis, paroxysm, shortage), обрат (about turn, mutation, phrase, revulsion, turn, turnabout), повратна точка (landmark, watershed), поврат (bend, change, mutation, quirk, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | krize (crisis, depression, slump), kritický bod (juncture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vendepunkt, overgangspunkt (change point), drejepunkt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | overdrachtspunt (change point), keerpunt (cusp of the first kind, simple cusp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ylivientipiste (change point), lattapiste (change point), käännepiste (cusp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tournant (turn, turning), renversement de tendance (turn), renversement (turn), point d'inflexion, point de retournement, point de changement, moment décisif, changement de sens. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wendepunkt (climacteric, marker, point of inflection, reversal point, turn, watershed), wende (change, face vault, turn, u turn, wend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σημείο καμπής, σημείο στροφήσ, σημείο αλλαγής θέσης οργάνου κατά την χωροστάθμηση (change point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מפ " (bearing, change, juncture, turn), קו"ת מפ " (crisis, watershed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | töréspont (breakpoint, cut-off point), fordulópont (burning point, landmark, turning-point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | svolta decisiva, punto di svolta, momento critico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 転機 , 転換期 (transition phase), 曲り' (a corner, bend in the road), 曲り目 (a corner, bend in the road), 変わり目 (change, new program, transition), 山 (climax), 分かれ" (branch, branch road, crossroads, forked road, parting of the ways), 分かれ目 (fork, junction, parting of the ways), 分れ" (branch, branch road, crossroads, forked road, parting of the ways), 別れ路 (branch, branch road, crossroads, forked road, one's way after the parting, parting of the ways, the way to hades), 別れ" (branch, branch road, crossroads, forked road, parting of the ways), 別れ目 (fork, junction, parting of the ways). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | まがりかど (a corner, bend in the road, road turn, street corner), まがりめ (a corner, bend, bend in the road, curve, turn), かわりめ (change, new program, transition), わかれめ (fork, junction, parting of the ways), わかれみち (branch, branch road, crossroads, forked road, parting of the ways), やまば (climax), て"か"き (transition phase), て"き (emperor's health, fine weather, posting, profound secret, the elements, the will of heaven, weather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urningtay ointpay ponto de transporte (change point), ponto de inflexão. (various references) moment critic. (various references) поворотный пункт (landmark, turning-point). (various references) zaokret (turn), prekretnica (milestone, turn). (various references) vértice poligonal (change point), punto de inflexión, punto de cambio (change point), momento crucial, coyuntura decisiva. (various references) vändpunkt, kritisk punkt (crunch, flash point, knife edge), flyttpunkt (change point). (various references) dönüm noktası (catastrophe, climacteric, climax, crisis, crossroad, crossroads, milestone, watershed), dönüş noktası. (various references) trobwynt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | flexus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-n-n-o-p-r-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: inpouring, inputting, intorting, nutrition. | |
-4 letters: gunpoint, ignitron, intoning, inurning, nonprint, notturni, pointing, printing, printout, punition, trouping, trunnion, tutoring, untiring. | |
-5 letters: grunion, ignitor, ingroup, introit, inuring, ironing, nutting, opining, outgrin, outring, pinning, pitting, porting, potting, pouring, pouting, pruning, punning, punting, putting, rinning, rioting, rotting, rouping, routing, ruining, running, rutting, tinning, tinting, toiting, touring, touting. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-n-n-o-p-r-t-t-u" | |
+3 letters: counterpointing. | |
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