Definition of "boiling point" []

• The temperature at which a liquid boils at a fixed pressure, especially under standard atmospheric conditions. (noun)
• Informal The point at which one loses one's temper. (noun)
• Informal The point of crisis; the turning point. (noun)

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• "It gushed at boiling point from a pipe at what was called the borehead, and ran through tiny channels fringed with poisonously green grass to every paddock on the property."