title: Tipping point
text: # Tipping point
  
  Tipping point or TippingPoint or The Tipping Point may refer to:
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * Tipping point (physics), a threshold in a sharp hysteresis loop; once reached, the system rapidly changes its state
  * Tipping point (sociology), an event when a previously rare phenomenon becomes rapidly and dramatically more common
  * Tipping point, in catastrophe theory, the value of the parameter in which the set of equilibria abruptly changes
  * Tipping points in the climate system, thresholds that, when exceeded, can lead to large changes in the state of the system
  
  ## As a proper name
  
  ### Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  **Literature**
  
  * The Tipping Point, a 2000 book by Malcolm Gladwell
  
  **Music**
  
  * Tipping Point (band), an experimental contemporary jazz quartet from England, founded in 2013
  * The Tipping Point (Authority Zero album), 2013
  * The Tipping Point (The Roots album), 2004
  * The Tipping Point (Tears for Fears album), 2022
  
  **Television**
  
  * Tipping Point (game show), a British game show
  * "Tipping Point", an episode of CSI: Miami
  * "The Tipping Point" (The Outer Limits), a TV episode
  
  ### Other uses as a proper name
  
  * Tipping Point Community, a US philanthropic organization
  * TippingPoint, a network security company
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Tipping-point state, in US presidential elections, the state that secures a candidate's victory, when all states are arranged in order of their vote margins
  