• adj.
    ⦿at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
    lexical concept
  • a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C — its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure
  • critical mass
  • go critical

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wn:part of speechadjective
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:critical
wn:interlingual indexili:i3620

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