WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
gold′ point′,
- the point at which it is equally expensive to buy, sell, export, import, or exchange gold in adjustment of foreign claims or counterclaims.
- Metallurgy, Thermodynamicsthe melting point of gold, equal to 1036°C and used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- 1880–85