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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freezing point
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Measuring plasma osmolality using freezing point depression or vapor pressure will immediately indicate that plasma osmolality and tonicity are normal.
▪ One mole of an un-ionized solute dissolved in 1 kilogram of water lowers the freezing point 1. 86-6.
▪ The colligative properties are boiling point, freezing point, osmotic pressure, and vapor pressure.
▪ The snow may crust at night, due to outward radiation, even thought the air temperature remains well above freezing point.
▪ These are elevation of boiling point, depression of freezing point, osmotic pressure.
▪ This is the freezing point of water at one atmosphere.
▪ Tritium has a higher freezing point than water and so could condense into a fine mist indistinguishable from normal fog.
▪ Yet it was not really cold here; the temperature was well above freezing point.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freezing point

Freezing \Freez"ing\, a. Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner. -- Frrez"ing*ly, adv.

Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice.

Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold.

Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32[deg] Fahr., and at 0[deg] Centigrade.

Wiktionary
freezing point

n. the temperature at which a liquid freezes, and the solid and liquid phases are in equilibrium; normally the same as the melting point

WordNet
freezing point

n. the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid [syn: melting point]

Wikipedia
Freezing Point

Freezing Point (Chinese: 冰点, Bīngdiǎn) is a news journal in the People's Republic of China which was the subject of controversy over its criticism of Communist Party officials and the sympathetic ear it lent to a Chinese historian who had criticized official history textbooks.

Freezing point (disambiguation)

Freezing point can refer to:

  • The freezing point of a substance, at which it changes form liquid to solid.
  • The Chinese news journal Freezing Point

Usage examples of "freezing point".

He looked at me consideringly and his voice warmed up a little to just under freezing point.

The weather was warmer than it had been for several days, the thermometer outside the main office of the sulfur mines rising very close to the freezing point.

Then he noticed that the highest reading on the meter was the freezing point of water.

Then he noticed that the _highest_ reading on the meter was the freezing point of water.

Some organisms live always below the freezing point of water, others above the boiling point.

The sky was heavily overcast and the temperature hovered around the freezing point of a saline solution glorious weather for Poltroyans, who generally hail from wintry planets and Fred and Willy mingled happily with the mob.

Half an hour only since I had put them off, but already they were stiff, awkward to handle and abominably cold - it was a rare day indeed when the temperature inside the cabin rose above freezing point.

The temperature in the cabin was no more than freezing point, but that was considerably warmer than it had been on the bridge and, more importantly, there was no wind there.