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adjective

  1. inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  2. occupied with or skilled in criticism.
  3. involving skillful judgment as to truth, merit, etc.; judicial: a critical analysis.
  4. of or relating to critics or criticism: critical essays.
  5. providing textual variants, proposed emendations, etc.: a critical edition of Chaucer.
  6. pertaining to or of the nature of a crisis: a critical shortage of food.
  7. of decisive importance with respect to the outcome; crucial: a critical moment.
  8. of essential importance; indispensable: a critical ingredient.
  9. Medicine/Medical. (of a patient’s condition) having unstable and abnormal vital signs and other unfavorable indicators, as loss of appetite, poor mobility, or unconsciousness.
  10. Physics.
    1. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity at which one or more properties of a substance or system undergo a change.
    2. (of fissionable material) having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction.

adjective

  1. not containing or making severe or negative judgments

adjective

  1. containing or making severe or negative judgments
  2. containing careful or analytical evaluationsa critical dissertation
  3. of or involving a critic or criticism
  4. of or forming a crisis; crucial; decisivea critical operation
  5. urgently neededcritical medical supplies
  6. informal so seriously injured or ill as to be in danger of dying
  7. physics of, denoting, or concerned with a state in which the properties of a system undergo an abrupt changea critical temperature
  8. go critical (of a nuclear power station or reactor) to reach a state in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction becomes self-sustaining

adj.1580s, “censorious,” from critic + -al (1). Meaning “pertaining to criticism” is from 1741; medical sense is from c.1600; meaning “of the nature of a crisis” is from 1640s; that of “crucial” is from 1841, from the “decisive” sense in Latin criticus. Related: Criticality (1756; in the nuclear sense, 1950); critically (1650s, “accurately;” 1815, “in a critical situation”). In nuclear science, critical mass is attested from 1940. adj.

  1. Of or relating to a medical crisis.
  2. Being or relating to a grave physical condition especially of a patient.
  3. Of or relating to the value of a measurement, such as temperature, at which an abrupt change in a chemical of physical quality, property, or state occurs.
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