Meaning

6 senses
  1. The unique temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid and gas phases of a substance are all in equilibrium.

    Tripelpunkt

    тро́йная то́чкаtrójnaja tóčka

  2. A point where the incident shock wave, the reflected shock wave, the Mach stem, and one slipstream meet.

  3. A point where a curve or surface intersects itself along three arcs.

  4. The intersection of an occluded front, cold front, and warm front.

  5. The point where two boundaries, such as a dry line, outflow boundary, or cold front, intersect.

  6. A point where three plates intersect.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium:

Forms

plural: triple points
Singulartriple point
Pluraltriple points

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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