See triple point on Wiktionary
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"(physics) A point where the incident shock wave, the reflected shock wave, the Mach stem, and one slipstream meet."
],
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"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Mathematics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1998, J. Scott Carter, Masahico Saito, Knotted Surfaces and Their Diagrams, →ISBN, page 162:",
"text": "The number of the distinguished edges whose orientations point towards the triple point is exactly one, or exactly two.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Rida T Farouki, Pythagorean-Hodograph Curves: Algebra and Geometry Inseparable, →ISBN:",
"text": "A cubic surface with a triple point (a cubic cone) may or may not be rational.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A point where a curve or surface intersects itself along three arcs."
],
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"point",
"point"
],
[
"curve",
"curve"
],
[
"surface",
"surface"
],
[
"intersect",
"intersect"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mathematics) A point where a curve or surface intersects itself along three arcs."
],
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"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Meteorology"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1993, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts:",
"text": "A further investigation is made of the reasonably-close relationship between some multiple tornado outbreaks in the British Isles and the passage of frontal-system triple points (TPs) using, principally, TORRO records and the hourly British Isles charts archived by the Meterorological Office at Bracknell.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Joseph M. Moran, Online weather studies, →ISBN, page 232:",
"text": "...together at the point of occlusion, or triple point, where conditions are favorable for formation of a new cyclone, sometimes called a secondary cyclone.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Phil Croucher, Private Helicopter Pilot Studies JAA BW, →ISBN, page 8-34:",
"text": "The point where occluding starts is the triple point, because there are three air masses involved: that ahead of the occlusion, the warm air aloft, and the air behind the occlusion, or where the cold, warm and occluded fronts meet.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"The intersection of an occluded front, cold front, and warm front."
],
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"meteorology",
"meteorology"
],
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"occluded front",
"occluded front"
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"cold front",
"cold front"
],
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"warm front",
"warm front"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(meteorology) The intersection of an occluded front, cold front, and warm front."
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"meteorology",
"natural-sciences"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1947, Maurice Adolph Garbell, Tropical and Equatorial Meteorology, page 205:",
"text": "Few, however, reach the African continent; some dissipate in the intertropical-front bulge east of southern Africa; others form triple points with the temperate fronts available for recurving anywhere between Australia and the Seychelles-Madagascar-Mascarenes (Reunion-Mauritius-Rodriguez) sector.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, The International Journal of Meteorology:",
"text": "It is concluded that the severe storms formed in close proximity to a \"triple point\" (TP), at which a synoptic cold front and \"insolation-enhanced\" warm front intersected.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The point where two boundaries, such as a dry line, outflow boundary, or cold front, intersect."
],
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[
"meteorology",
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"dry line",
"dry line"
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"outflow boundary",
"outflow boundary"
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"cold front",
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"(meteorology) The point where two boundaries, such as a dry line, outflow boundary, or cold front, intersect."
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"climatology",
"meteorology",
"natural-sciences"
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"English terms with quotations"
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{
"ref": "2003, Neville Price, Major Impacts and Plate Tectonics, →ISBN, page 131:",
"text": "Such a 'piecrust model' has been used to explain the generation of triple points which can give rise to splitting of a continental body.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, O. Oncken, C. Janssen, Basement Tectonics 11 Europe and Other Regions, →ISBN, page 43:",
"text": "Microstructures like static mineral growth, equilibrated grain boundaries with triple points especially in quartz and feldspar fabric and the lack of plastic crystal lattice deformations even in quartz indicate that metamorphism outlasted deformation.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Duncan Keppie, The Analysis of Diffuse Triple Junction Zones in Plate Tectonics and the Pirate Model of Western Caribbean Tectonics, →ISBN, page 24:",
"text": "End-member stable triple point configurations are indicated in which the triple point is fixed to the North or South American plates (dashed grey lines) or fixed to the Caribbean Plate (dotted grey lines).",
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}
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"A point where three plates intersect."
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"(plate tectonics) A point where three plates intersect."
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}
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"translations": [
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trojný bod"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tripelpunt"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"word": "triobla punkto"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"word": "trifaza punkto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"word": "kolmoispiste"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "point triple"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Tripelpunkt"
},
{
"alt": "さんじゅうてん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sanjūten",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"word": "三重点"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "punkt potrójny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ponto triplo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "trójnaja tóčka",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тро́йная то́чка"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trojný bod"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "punto triple"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "trippelpunkt"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"word": "üçlü nokta"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "the temperature and pressure at which a substance is in equilibrium",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pwynt triphlyg"
}
],
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"triple point"
],
"word": "triple point"
}
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