flash point

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flash point 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Also flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
  2. a critical point or stage at which something or someone suddenly causes or creates some significant action: A 10 percent drop in mortgage rates will produce a flash point in the housing market.
  3. a critical situation or area having the potential of erupting in sudden violence: The Mideast has been the flash point for a series of conflicts.

flash point 近义词

n. 名词 noun

crucial moment

更多flash point例句

  1. The incident is the latest flash point in how police use Tasers, particularly against the elderly.
  2. In sports, Lynch cites a global soccer scandal as a flash point for companies speaking out and becoming more supportive of athletes who do so, too.
  3. The hope is by being proactive, keeping them safe, that hopefully we can ultimately prevent that flash point crisis moment.
  4. The flash points become issues of data rights rather than rights of way.
  5. Any attempt to step around the fire engulfing the American zeitgeist using entertainment, spectacle or absurdity would be, again, an easy flash point to an angry debate regarding tone deafness or lack of awareness.
  6. The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.
  7. Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!
  8. To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
  9. Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link  or infrared pointer at this point.
  10. But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.
  11. This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
  12. The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
  13. A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
  14. His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.
  15. Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.