freezing point

1. 1.

   the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid

   Synonymsmelting point

   Broadertemperature

Questions about freezing point

What does freezing point mean?

freezing point means "the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid".

What is another word for freezing point?

Close synonyms include melting point. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is freezing point a common word?

freezing point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.