0 the time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped: --
1 a time during an activity or process when an important decision has to be made or when a situation changes completely: --
reach/approach/near a tipping point Employee anger over pay violations in the restaurant industry may have reached a tipping point.
be at a tipping point Employers could find themselves at a tipping point, where so few employees participate in their health-care plans it threatens their ability to obtain group coverage.
a tipping point in sth Many developed countries are getting close to a tipping point in their attitude to the environment.
When a tipping point- the critical threshold- is reached, a small change in human activity can have long-term consequences on the environment.
It was excesses that led to the risk of a tipping point in many different economies.
Wagons would run along a length of temporary track by gravity, until they arrived at the tipping point, where they would be emptied.
The spring then pushes the actuator to the opposite tipping point, releasing the spring tension.
Consciousness seems to have a tipping point or phase transition of sorts, an all-or-nothing cutoff.
Somatic stem cell therapies, which are those that use stem cells extracted from humans after they are born or from the umbilical cord and placenta, are at a tipping point.
They have brought the economy to tipping point.
If that had been the tipping point for the panel, there could he concern about whether the panel had checked whether the procedure had taken place.
