The point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important change.
Example sentencesExamples
What is perhaps most interesting about Love's model is that the musical public only becomes political at a specific moment or tipping point of self-consciousness.
I'd just about reached the tipping point in my day's rooting allegiance - I'd have given it up for Colon in the ninth, but Luis Polonia beat me to the punch with a one-out single.
It seems I experienced some kind of tipping point, at which I decided I wanted to learn about other races, rather than wanting to hate them.
I think people have things that are sort of tipping points in their lives.
Brooding about this needless death, I reached the internal tipping point, where my guilt started to outweigh my pleasure.
More important, once you know your tipping point, what do you do about it?
Now it seems consumers may have reached their tipping point.
Definition of tipping point in US English:
tipping point
noun
The point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important change.
Example sentencesExamples
It seems I experienced some kind of tipping point, at which I decided I wanted to learn about other races, rather than wanting to hate them.
What is perhaps most interesting about Love's model is that the musical public only becomes political at a specific moment or tipping point of self-consciousness.
More important, once you know your tipping point, what do you do about it?
I think people have things that are sort of tipping points in their lives.
I'd just about reached the tipping point in my day's rooting allegiance - I'd have given it up for Colon in the ninth, but Luis Polonia beat me to the punch with a one-out single.
Now it seems consumers may have reached their tipping point.
Brooding about this needless death, I reached the internal tipping point, where my guilt started to outweigh my pleasure.