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- (noun): A critical value, factor, etc.
- (noun): In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
- (adjective): Inclined to find fault or criticize
- (adjective): Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- (adjective): Extremely important.
- (adjective): Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (adjective): 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.
- (adjective): Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- (adjective): Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (adjective): (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.
- A good teacher is fair but critical.
- This is a critical moment.
- It's critical that you deliver this on time.
- The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office.
- The patient's condition is critical.