melting point

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   the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid

   Synonymsfreezing point

   Broadertemperature

Questions about melting point

What does melting point mean?

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

What is another word for melting point?

Close synonyms include freezing 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 melting point a common word?

melting 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.