critical
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Definitions ofcritical
- A critical value, factor, etc.
- In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
- Inclined to find fault or criticize
Synonyms: captious, censorious, exacting, fastidious
Example: "A good teacher is fair but critical."
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
Example: "This is a critical moment."
- Extremely important.
Example: "It's critical that you deliver this on time."
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
Example: "The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office."
- Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
Example: "The patient's condition is critical."
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
Example: "The political situation was so critical that the government declared the state of siege."
- Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
Example: "The reaction was about to become critical."
- (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
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