critical

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Significat (anglès)

1. Inclined to find fault or criticize.
2. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
3. Extremely important.
4. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
5. 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.
6. In such a condition.
7. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
8. Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
9. 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.

crucial

fault-finding

almost dead

of prime importance

in jeopardy

characterized by criticism

climactical

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kəl/

From Latin criticus + -al, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίνω (krínō, “I separate, judge”); also the root of crisis.

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