Definitions for tipping point
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1. tipping pointnoun

   The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences.

2. tipping pointnoun

   The point in time at which some new technology becomes mainstream.

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1. Tipping point

   In sociology, a tipping point is a point in time when a group–-or a large number of group members--rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice. The phrase was first used in sociology by Morton Grodzins when he adopted the phrase from physics where it referred to the adding a small amount of weight to a balanced object until the additional weight caused the object to suddenly and completely topple, or tip. Grodzins studied integrating American neighborhoods in the early 1960s. He discovered that most of the white families remained in the neighborhood as long as the comparative number of black families remained very small. But, at a certain point, when "one too many" black families arrived, the remaining white families would move out en masse in a process known as white flight. He called that moment the "tipping point". The idea was expanded and built upon by Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Schelling in 1972. A similar idea underlies Mark Granovetter's threshold model of collective behavior.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tipping point in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tipping point in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of tipping point in a Sentence

1. Mohsen Malayeri:

   This year will be a tipping point, we either win or we lose the whole thing.

2. Keri Althoff:

   The tipping point seems to be right around 50 %, that's when we really start to see that variant flex its power in the population.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don’t boldly change course now.

4. Mr Hawking:

   We are close to the tipping point, where global warming becomes irreversible, trump’s action could push the earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250C, and raining sulfuric acid.

5. James Clapper:

   Even Secretary Mattis, as dedicated as Secretary Mattis is to this country and particularly to the men and women of the armed forces that Secretary Mattis leads, even Secretary Mattis would at some point I think would have a tipping point if Secretary Mattis's completely cut out of things.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tipping_Point
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=tipping point