Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physical, that point on the thermometric scale which corresponds to the temperature of steam under a pressure of 76 centimeters of mercury.
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His eyes strayed from the intricate system of pipes and flumes to the cloud of white vapour that rose from the shaft house where the never-tiring steam-point drills forced their way slowly down, down, down into the eternal frost.
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