Found 2 items, similar to Freezing point.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: freezing point
freezing point
n : the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid
[syn:
melting point]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Freezing point
Freezing
\Freez"ing\, a.
Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in
manner. --
Frrez"ing*ly, adv.
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Freezing machine. See
Ice machine, under
Ice.
Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of
chemical salts) for producing intense cold.
Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a
fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water,
whose freezing point is at 32[deg] Fahr., and at 0[deg]
Centigrade.
[1913 Webster]