transition point

noun

1. the point at which a transition of physical properties takes place, such as the point at which laminar flow changes to turbulent flow

2. See transition temperature

Example Sentences

"Great things to come but we're at that transition point now," she said.

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The “transition point” is likely to occur sometime in July at lower elevations and in August at higher elevations, he said.

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However, building on their earlier work, the team showed that fluids move through a pipe in a non-equilibrium phase transition, known as directed percolation, at the transition point between laminar and turbulent flow.

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Puff jams tend to "melt" at the critical transition point from laminar to turbulent flow, giving way to the special statistical behavior of the directed percolation transition.

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A substantial sculptural element can perform a variety of garden-design jobs, he added, strengthening the structure of the landscape by “calling attention to its junctures — the entry, or the transition point, or the destination.”

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