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English
Pronunciation
Noun
turning point (plural turning points)
- A decisive point at which a significant change or historical event occurs, or at which a decision must be made.
- Synonyms: crossroads, watershed
2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in The Guardian:Europe will be watching the final battle closely. A Hollande victory in the second round would be a turning point in European politics, a rare victory for the left in Europe, which has in recent years moved towards the right
- (calculus) A maximum or minimum on a graph.
- A crossroads.
- A T-junction.
Translations
decisive point
- Bulgarian: повратна точка f (povratna točka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 轉折點／转折点 (zh) (zhuǎnzhédiǎn)
- Danish: vendepunkt n
- Dutch: keerpunt (nl) n, wendepunt n
- Finnish: käännekohta (fi), murros (fi)
- French: tournant (fr) m, moment charnière (fr) m
- Galician: punto de inflexión
- German: Wendepunkt (de) m, Zäsur (de) f (formal)
- Hungarian: fordulópont (hu)
- Icelandic: þáttaskil (is) n pl
- Italian: svolta (it) f, inversione (it) f
- Japanese: 転機 (ja) (てんき, tenki), 変わり目 (かわりめ, kawarime)
- Korean: 전기(轉機) (ko) (jeon'gi), 전환점(轉換點) (ko) (jeonhwanjeom)
- Latin: discrīmen (la) n
- Maori: taihuringa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vendepunkt (no) n
- Nynorsk: vendepunkt n
- Persian: نقطهی عطف, دگرگونگاه
- Polish: punkt zwrotny m
- Portuguese: virada de mesa f, ponto de inflexão
- Romanian: punct de cotitură n
- Russian: перело́мный моме́нт m (perelómnyj momént), поворо́тный моме́нт m (povorótnyj momént), поворо́тный пункт m (povorótnyj punkt)
- Spanish: punto de inflexión (es) m
- Swedish: vändpunkt (sv) c
- Thai: จุดวิกฤต (jùt-wí-grʉ̀t)
- Turkish: dönüm noktası (tr)
- Ukrainian: перело́мний моме́нт m (perelómnyj momént), поворо́тний моме́нт m (povorótnyj momént), поворо́тний пункт m (povorótnyj punkt), перело́м m (perelóm)
- Vietnamese: bước ngoặt (vi), bước quyết định
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(calculus) maximum or minimum
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