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critical
English
Etymology
From the suffix -al and Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”) <????? (krín?, “I separate, judge”); also the root of crisis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??t?k?l/
Adjective
critical (comparative more critical, superlative most critical)
- Inclined to find fault or criticize
- Synonyms: fastidious, captious, censorious, exacting
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Extremely important.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- Third Pole glaciers are critical to billions of people from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (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.
- Coordinate terms: fair, serious, stable
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (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.
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Noun
critical (plural criticals)
- A critical value, factor, etc.
- 2008, John J. Coyle, C. John Langley, Brian Gibson, Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (page 564)
- Finally, criticals are high-risk, high-value items that give the final product a competitive advantage in the marketplace […] Criticals, in part, determine the customer's ultimate cost of using the finished product — in our example, the computer.
- 2008, John J. Coyle, C. John Langley, Brian Gibson, Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (page 564)
- In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
Further reading
- critical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Medical state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- critical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- critical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- critical at OneLook Dictionary Search
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well-known
English
Alternative forms
- well known, wellknown
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w?l?no?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w?l?n??n/
Adjective
well-known (comparative better-known or more well-known, superlative best-known or most well-known)
- Familiar, famous, renowned or widely known.
- (computing, not comparable) Generally recognised; reserved for some usual purpose.
- 1972, Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, RFC 322 - Well known socket numbers
- We would like to catalog other sockets which are supposed to be well-known
- 2003, John Mueller, .NET development security solutions
- If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.
- 2007, Larry L Peterson, Bruce S Davie, Computer networks: a systems approach
- A common approach is for the server to accept messages at a well-known port.
- 1972, Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, RFC 322 - Well known socket numbers
Hypernyms
- known
Related terms
- celebrity
Translations
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- what well-known singer died today
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