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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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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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indispensable
English
Etymology
From Middle French indispensable, from Medieval Latin indispensabilis, corresponding to in- +? dispensable.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?nd??sp?ns?b?l/
Adjective
indispensable (comparative more indispensable, superlative most indispensable)
- (ecclesiastical, obsolete) Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules. [16th-17th c.]
- (of duties, rules etc.) Unbendable, that cannot be set aside or ignored. [from 17th c.]
- The law was moral and indispensable. -Bp. Burnet
- Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without. [from 17th c.]
- An indispensable component of a heart-healthy diet.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:requisite
Antonyms
- dispensable
Derived terms
- indispensability
- indispensableness
- indispensably
Translations
Noun
indispensable (plural indispensables)
- A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity. [from 17th c.]
- (in the plural, colloquial, dated) Trousers. [from 19th c.]
Catalan
Adjective
indispensable (masculine and feminine plural indispensables)
- indispensable
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.dis.p??.sabl/
Adjective
indispensable (plural indispensables)
- indispensable
Further reading
- “indispensable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /indispen?sable/, [?n?.d?is.p?n?sa.??le]
Adjective
indispensable (plural indispensables)
- indispensable
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