triple point
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The unique temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid and gas phases of a substance are all in equilibrium.
noun
A point where the incident shock wave, the reflected shock wave, the Mach stem, and one slipstream meet.
noun
The intersection of an occluded front, cold front, and warm front.
noun
The point where two boundaries, such as a dry line, outflow boundary, or cold front, intersect.
Example Sentences
- "A solid sublimes only when the pressure of its vapor is below that of the triple point for that substance."
- "When the incident shock wave is at position “a” the second triple point, T, is still inside the zone where the vibrational degree of freedom has not yet reached its equilibrium and the dissociational degree of freedom is still frozen at that position, as its excitation can be assumed to start only after vibrational equilibrium is reached."
- "A triple point may have a convex Mach stem, in which case the SS points upward."
- "One constant, however, is that the flow, just downstream of the incident shock, at a triple point, must be supersonic."
- "The number of the distinguished edges whose orientations point towards the triple point is exactly one, or exactly two."
- "A cubic surface with a triple point (a cubic cone) may or may not be rational."