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