0 the time at which a situation starts to change in an important way:
1 the time when a situation starts to change in an important, esp. positive, way:
2 a time when a situation starts to change in an important way:
If no such turning point could be identified, the measurement was taken at mid-point.
For the healthcare systems of both countries the postwar period was a turning point.
The income level at which the turning point occurs is however unaffected by the normalization procedure.
A turning point is one in which the average developmental trajectory is disrupted in a positive or negative fashion.
The year 1948 was a turning point; it saw the emergence of an information metanarrative.
The turning point came in one of those public moments of humiliation commonly undergone by prima donnas.
When the inner electron reaches its inner turning point, the outer electron experiences a net attractive force from the screened nuclear potential.
A turning point seems to have been reached sometime in 1933.
