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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The temperature above which a gas cannot be liquefied, regardless of the pressure applied.
- noun The temperature at which a material becomes a superconductor.
- noun The temperature at which a property of a material, such as its magnetism, changes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Physics) A certain temperature, different for different gases, but always the same for each gas, regarded as the temperature above which no amount of pressure can produce condensation to a liquid; the temperature above which a gas cannot be liquified.
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- noun physics The
temperature at thecritical point of a substance
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