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flash point
noun
- a critical point or stage at which something or someone suddenly causes or creates some significant action:
A 10 percent drop in mortgage rates will produce a flash point in the housing market.
- a critical situation or area having the potential of erupting in sudden violence:
The Mideast has been the flash point for a series of conflicts.
flash point
noun
- the lowest temperature at which the vapour above a liquid can be ignited in air
- a critical moment beyond which a situation will inevitably erupt into violence
the political mood has reached flash point
flash point
- The lowest temperature at which the vapor of a flammable liquid will ignite in air. The flash point is generally lower than the temperature needed for the liquid itself to ignite.
flash point
- For a given flammable substance, the lowest temperature at which vapors passing from the substance into the air will catch fire spontaneously if a small flame is present.
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Example Sentences
If tickets to sporting events have gotten too expensive for the average fan, then Dodger Stadium is a flash point in the debate over whether teams should pursue every dollar they can.
The race, which could flip control of the state's supreme court to the Republicans, has become a flash point and the most expensive judicial election in American history.
But few could have predicted the flash point would be electric cars.
A series of showings of the documentary “No Other Land” at a single-screen art-house theater in Miami Beach has become a flash point of controversy.
The gaps hint that a critical flash point of America’s political impasse may be misunderstood.
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