English-French translations for tipping point

• point de bascule
  Si nous n'agissons pas maintenant, l'humanité va se précipiter vers un point de basculement sans retour. Failure to act now means humankind will hurtle towards a tipping point from which there is no return.
  Ces six dernières années seulement, l'épaisseur de la calotte glacière a diminué de moitié près du pôle Nord et a peut-être franchi un point de basculement. In the past six years alone, the ice cap has lost up to half its thickness near the North Pole and may have passed a tipping point.

Definition of tipping point

• The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences
• An irreversible change in the climate system
• The point in time at which some new technology becomes mainstream

Related words

• tippi
• tipping element
• tipping the sacred cow
• tipping wagon