critical englanniksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-englanti)

Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
Extremely important.
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.
Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.

A good teacher is fair but critical.
This is a critical moment.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:[...]it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
It's critical that you deliver this on time.
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[...]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office.
The patient's condition is critical.
The political situation was so critical that the government declared the state of siege.
The reaction was about to become critical.
The second undamped system criticals show a greater percentage depression than the first.
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.
~ reception kriitikoiden palaute
critical point kriittinen piste

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