Phrase Hound found 87 phrases and 40 compound words that contain critical. The most common are listed below. Open critical in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 87
- critical thinkingThe application of logical principles, rigorous standards of evidence, and careful reasoning to the analysis and discussion of claims, beliefs, and issues.
- critical massThe minimum amount of fissile material needed to support a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
- critical pointThe temperature and pressure at which the vapour density of the gas and liquid phases of a fluid are equal, at which point there is no difference between gas and liquid.
- mission-criticalOf a process or part within a larger system, vital to the operations of the system as a whole.
- critical conditionA precarious state of health of a person, who is in need of intensive care to remain alive. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- critical theoryThe examination and critique of society and literature, drawing from knowledge across social science and the humanities; (in particular) the original ideas developed by the Frankfurt School.
- Critical Role
- critical careIntensive care.
- self-criticalCapable of criticizing oneself; able to find mistakes and possibilities for improvement in one's own work.
- critical pathThe sequence of dependent steps that determine the minimum time needed to carry out an operation.
- Critical habitat
- critical hitA successful attack that deals more damage than a normal blow.
- gender criticalAlternative form of gender-critical.
- Critical analysis
- critical sectionA piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.
- critical pointsplural of critical point: The temperature and pressure at which the vapour density of the gas and liquid phases of a fluid are equal, at which point there is no difference between gas and liquid.
- Critical areas
- Critical Factor
- critical illnessInsurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on the diagnosis of a serious (life-threatening) illness in the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on death or healthy survival to the end of the term.
- critical temperatureThe temperature at the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- Critical Acclaim
- critical supportSupport, given to those with theoretical disagreements, in the furtherance of anti-imperialism or socialism, especially international socialism.
- Critical Review
- Critical infrastructure
- Critical systems
Compound words 40
- EurocriticalCritical of the European Union.
- sociocriticalOf or relating to social criticism.
- anticriticalOpposing critics or criticism.
- ecocriticalOf or pertaining to the field of ecocriticism.
- intercriticalBetween attacks (especially of gout)
- metacriticalRelating to metacriticism.
- postcriticalFollowing criticism; after all criticism has ended
- unicriticalHaving a single critical point.
- antecriticalprior to criticism
- bicriticalDescribing a graph, the removal of two of whose vertices leaves a subgraph the edges of which can be coloured with only three colours