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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.
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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.
Examples of critical in a Sentence
At least he didn't look so critical now.
I didn't expect the critical infrastructure to disintegrate so fast.
Her critical gaze swept over him with a frown.
But he's not in critical condition?
He raised a critical eyebrow at the end of his inspection.
You were in critical condition.
I had read many books before, but never from a critical point of view.
But the critical question is, will they resort to war to resolve them?
The evidence of date derived from changes in the language is more difficult to formulate, and the inquiry calls for the most diligent use of scientific method and critical judgment.
She stepped back, giving her work a critical survey.
After I found out you weren't critical, I tried to call Quinn and Howie but I didn't get through.
The caller was the husband of Howie's mother, his step-father, informing him that his mother had suffered a serious heart attack and was in critical condition.
Assess what damage you can and rebuild the critical infrastructure systems.
Even Felipa was sober under his critical eye.
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
In this letter the countess also mentioned that Prince Andrew was among the wounded traveling with them; his state was very critical, but the doctor said there was now more hope.
I was less critical than my wife on the slow workings of the law.
There was no room for traitors in his ranks, not with his critical mission on the human world and his own mate within striking distance.
The pursuing Egyptians were drowned, and the miraculous preservation of the chosen people at the critical moment marks the first stage in the national history?
During these critical years he adopted the "states' rights" attitude.
The first contains prolegomena on the life and writings of Boetius, on his religion and philosophy, and on the manuscripts and editions, a critical apparatus, and notes.
Of these the most original and valuable is the Critical Period volume, a history of the consolidation of the states into a government, and of the formation of the constitution.
Critical discussions of the history will be found in Schiller, Gesch.
This is the minimum of critical procedure required to do justice to the facts.
The Syro-Hexaplar version, on the other hand, is extremely valuable for critical purposes.
Among his numerous critical works are Ecrivains modernes d'Angleterre (3rd series, 1885-1892) and Heures de lecture d'un critique (1891), studies of John Aubrey, Pope, Wilkie Collins and Sir John Mandeville.
At the very moment when Matthias was about to profit by the disappearance of his most capable rival, another dangerous rebellion, headed by the primate and the chief dignitaries of the state, with the object of placing Casimir, son of Casimir IV., on the throne, paralysed Matthias's foreign policy during the critical years 1470-1471.
A provisional government was formed, led by Ubaldino Peruzzi, and was strengthened on the 8th of May by the inclusion of Baron Bettino Ricasoli, a man of great force of character, who became the real head of the administration, and all through the ensuing critical period aimed unswervingly at Italian unity.
Unfortunately, on this, as on other critical occasions, deputies proved themselves incapable of common effort to promote general welfare.
He also published critical editions of Curtius and Florus.
Schoutes Die Steldr-Theorie (Groningen, 1902), gives an important critical account of this subject.
The phenomena have been the subject of very careful and critical examination for many years, and may be regarded as satisfactorily established.
It does not seem that any maritime trade followed these discoveries, and indeed it is doubtful whether his contemporaries accepted the truth of Pytheas's narrative; Strabo four hundred years later certainly did not, but the critical studies of modern scholars have rehabilitated the Massilian explorer.
Migne's texts are not always satisfactory, but since the completion of his great undertaking two important collections have been begun on critical lines - the Vienna edition of the Latin Church writers,' and the Berlin edition of the Greek writers of the ante-Nicene period .8 For English readers there are three series of translations from the fathers, which cover much of the ground; the Oxford Library of the Fathers, the Ante Nicene Christian Library and the Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
Russia was thus in a very critical condition.
The winter found him arranging for the publication in England of the selection from his articles and reviews which appeared in 1845, under the title of Critical and Historical Essays, and was issued almost contemporaneously at New York under the title of Biographical and Critical Miscellanies.
This theory Gibbon completely exploded in his Critical Observations (1770) - no very difficult task, indeed, but achieved in a style, and with a profusion of learning, which called forth the warmest commendations both at home and abroad.
The Protestant controversy on the Eucharist (1524) revealed his disagreement with Luther on that critical point.
He became prefect of police in November 1887, at the critical moment of President Grevy's resignation.
He therefore transferred Gorchakov to Vienna, where the latter remained through the critical period of the Crimean War.
Having annihilated at Poltava the army of Charles XII., Peter was not at all indisposed to renew the struggle with Turkey, and began the campaign in the confident hope of making extensive conquests; but he had only got as far as the Pruth when he found himself surrounded by a great Turkish army, and, in order to extricate himself from his critical position, he had to sign a humiliating treaty by which Azov and other conquests were restored to the sultan.
No biological generalization rests on a wider series of observations, or has been subjected to a more critical scrutiny than that every living organism has come into existence from a living portion or portions of a pre-existing organism.
He made no attempt at a critical examination of historical traditions, and wrote in a flowery and often bombastic style, but in spite of this drawback, Mirkhond's Rauzat remains one of the most marvellous achievements in literature.
In the preceding account the biblical narratives have been followed as closely as possible in the light of the critical results generally accepted.
To this was appended a critical dissertation on the historians who had dealt with the period (Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtschreiber), which, showing as it did how untrustworthy was much of traditional history, was to be for modern history as epoch-marking as the critical work of Niebuhr had been in ancient history.
The critical method which has since become almost a formal system, aiming at scientific certainty, was with him an unexampled power, based on the insight acquired from wide knowledge, which enabled him to judge the credibility of an author or the genuineness of an authority; but he has made it impossible for any one to attempt to write modern history except on the "narratives of eye-witnesses and the most genuine immediate documents" preserved in the archives.
The critical volume of oxygen can be deduced from the data of the above table, and is found to be 29, whereas the experimental value is 25.
The Biblical Commission, soon enlarged so as to swamp the original critical members, and which had become the simple mouthpiece of its presiding cardinals, issued two decrees.
The critical day passed without incident.
For many years he devoted his leisure to Greek studies, and in1850-1857he published five volumes of a Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece, which, though uncompleted and somewhat antiquated, is still useful.