critical
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Inclined to find fault or criticize.
A good teacher is fair but critical.
Đồng nghĩa: fastidious, captious, censorious, exacting, judgmental
- 2.
Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
This is a critical moment.
- 3.
Extremely important.
It's critical that you deliver this on time.
Đồng nghĩa: crucial, imperative
- 4.
Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office.
- 5.
(medicine) 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.
The patient's condition is critical.
- 6.
(broadly)(medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
The patient is critical.
Two critical after fatal Wimbledon school crash
- 7.
Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
The political situation was so critical that the government declared the state of siege.
- 8.
(physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
The reaction was about to become critical.
- 9.
(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.
- 10.
(botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
critical plants
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A critical value, factor, etc.
- 2.
critical hit
Đồng nghĩa: crit
- 3.
In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
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