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Definition of flashpoint in English: flashpointnounˈflaʃpɔɪntˈflæʃpɔɪnt 1A place, event, or time at which violence or hostility flares up. （暴力、怒气等麻烦的）爆发点；导火线；激化时刻 the conflict reached a flashpoint last year Example sentencesExamples - There were flashpoints: most notably when the board tried to rubberstamp massive bonuses for the very people responsible for screwing the company up.
- I said, ‘Mr. President as long as there are checkpoints, there are flashpoints.’
- It's been a flashpoint for violence since the United States invaded.
- Yet what is true for us seems just as accurate when we look across the globe - particularly to critical international flashpoints.
- The frequency of incidents raises serious concern because the area is known as a possible flashpoint for regional conflict.
- One of the flashpoints is the precautionary approach.
- Although there are flashpoints of conflict all over the country there is no national policy on how to tackle them.
- The answer, I believe, is often that these disagreements occur in cases that not only present difficult legal questions, but also are flashpoints for underlying conflicts involving basic values and beliefs.
- The post-Cold War need for mobile, flexible forces to deal with threats and flashpoints that can flare up at a moment's notice has placed a new emphasis on airlift.
- Only Berlin continued to be a flashpoint until the superpowers reached an understanding about the two Germanies.
- The season's main violence flashpoints were before, during and after games against Hartlepool, Bury, and Carlisle.
- His intervention has helped ensure that violent flashpoints have not spun out of control.
- In what was just the latest flashpoint in a campaign of sectarian violence, the terrified Catholics were ambushed by the baying mob.
- While the League of Ireland has never had a strong culture of violence, most of the flashpoints that have occurred have involved supporters from one or both of these clubs.
- Politics here have long been a flashpoint for violence.
- Child custody and visitation rights are becoming flashpoints in our society: Men are desperate to be a part of their children's lives.
- Environmentalism has become one of the hottest cultural flashpoints in the battle between red and blue America.
- Christmas is often a flashpoint for domestic violence due to increased drinking, tension over money and contact with family members.
- The cable wars in the city have reached a new flashpoint.
- Edwards explores how a single rugby match proved to be one of the most significant flashpoints in Welsh history.
2Chemistry
The temperature at which a particular organic compound gives off sufficient vapour to ignite in air. 〔化〕（有机化合物的）闪点，燃点，引火点 this particular resin is very volatile and has a fairly low flashpoint Example sentencesExamples - They had routinely heated paraffin oil with a flashpoint of 175 degrees centigrade in its baking tins to stop pies sticking.
Definition of flashpoint in US English: flashpoint(also flash point) nounˈflaSHpointˈflæʃpɔɪnt 1A place, event, or time at which trouble, such as violence or anger, flares up. （暴力、怒气等麻烦的）爆发点；导火线；激化时刻 the flashpoint of the conflagration is just blocks away Example sentencesExamples - While the League of Ireland has never had a strong culture of violence, most of the flashpoints that have occurred have involved supporters from one or both of these clubs.
- I said, ‘Mr. President as long as there are checkpoints, there are flashpoints.’
- The frequency of incidents raises serious concern because the area is known as a possible flashpoint for regional conflict.
- Christmas is often a flashpoint for domestic violence due to increased drinking, tension over money and contact with family members.
- The answer, I believe, is often that these disagreements occur in cases that not only present difficult legal questions, but also are flashpoints for underlying conflicts involving basic values and beliefs.
- The season's main violence flashpoints were before, during and after games against Hartlepool, Bury, and Carlisle.
- In what was just the latest flashpoint in a campaign of sectarian violence, the terrified Catholics were ambushed by the baying mob.
- There were flashpoints: most notably when the board tried to rubberstamp massive bonuses for the very people responsible for screwing the company up.
- Edwards explores how a single rugby match proved to be one of the most significant flashpoints in Welsh history.
- Yet what is true for us seems just as accurate when we look across the globe - particularly to critical international flashpoints.
- It's been a flashpoint for violence since the United States invaded.
- Although there are flashpoints of conflict all over the country there is no national policy on how to tackle them.
- Child custody and visitation rights are becoming flashpoints in our society: Men are desperate to be a part of their children's lives.
- One of the flashpoints is the precautionary approach.
- Politics here have long been a flashpoint for violence.
- Environmentalism has become one of the hottest cultural flashpoints in the battle between red and blue America.
- The post-Cold War need for mobile, flexible forces to deal with threats and flashpoints that can flare up at a moment's notice has placed a new emphasis on airlift.
- His intervention has helped ensure that violent flashpoints have not spun out of control.
- The cable wars in the city have reached a new flashpoint.
- Only Berlin continued to be a flashpoint until the superpowers reached an understanding about the two Germanies.
2Chemistry
The temperature at which a particular organic compound gives off sufficient vapor to ignite in air. 〔化〕（有机化合物的）闪点，燃点，引火点 Example sentencesExamples - They had routinely heated paraffin oil with a flashpoint of 175 degrees centigrade in its baking tins to stop pies sticking.
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