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• pertaining to a critic
  Critic
  
  The word critic comes from the Greek language ' , "able to discern", which in turn derives from the word ' , meaning a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis, value judgment, interpretation, or observation....
  
• pertaining to a critique
  Critique
  
  The term critique derives from the Greek term kritik, meaning "discerning judgment", usually of the value of something. Especially in philosophy contexts it is influenced by Immanuel Kant's use of the term to mean a reflective examination of the validity and limits of a human capacity or of a set of philosophical claims and has been exte...
  
• pertaining to a crisis
  Crisis
  
  A crisis may occur on a personal or societal level. It may be a Psychological trauma or Stress change in a person's life, or an unstable and dangerous social situation, in political, social, economic, military affairs, or a large-scale environmental event, especially one involving an impending abrupt change....
  

Philosophy

• critical theory
  Critical theory
  
  In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory is the examination and critique of society and literature, drawing from knowledge across social sciences and humanities disciplines....
   - concepts in social theory and in literary criticism

Psychology and education

• critical pedagogy
  Critical pedagogy
  
  Critical pedagogy is a teaching approach that attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate....
   - helping students achieve critical consciousness
• critical psychology
  Critical psychology
  
  Critical psychology is a branch of psychology that is aimed at critiquing mainstream psychology and attempts to apply psychology in more progressive ways, often looking towards social change as a means of preventing and treating psychopathology....
   - critiquing mainstream psychology, often looking towards social change as a means of preventing and treating psychopathology
• critical thinking
  Critical thinking
  
  Critical thinking is purposeful and reflective judgment about what to believe or do in response to observations, experience, Interpersonal communication or writing expressions, or arguments....
   - mental processes of discernment, analysis and evaluation

Biology and medicine

• critical care
  Intensive care medicine
  
  Intensive Care Medicine or critical care medicine is a branch of medicine concerned with the provision of life support or organ support systems in patients who are critically ill and who usually require intensive monitoring....
   - intensive care medicine
• critical condition
  Critical Condition
  
  Critical condition is a Medical conditions.Critical Condition may also be:* Critical Condition , an episode of the television series Sex and the City...
   - grade of severity of a medical condition
• critical period
  Critical period
  
  This article is about a critical period in an organism's development. See also America's Critical Period.In general, a critical period is a limited time in which an event can occur, usually to result in some kind of transformation....
   - a time in the early stages of an organism's life during which it displays a heightened sensitivity to certain environmental stimuli, and develops in particular ways due to experiences at this time

Mathematics

• critical graph
  Critical graph
  
  In general the notion of criticality can refer to any measure.But in graph theory, when the term is used without any qualification, it almost always refers to the Graph coloring of a graph ....
   - graph with minimal chromatic number
• critical group
  Critical group
  
  In mathematics, in the realm of group theory, a Group is said to be critical if it is not in the variety generated by all its proper subquotients, which includes all its subgroups and all its quotients....
   - a group not in the variety generated by all its proper subquotients
• critical line
  Critical Line
  
  Critical Line is a contemporary art Art exhibition center which opened May 5, 2006. It is one of two major projects of the nonprofit art organization ArtRod....
   - of zeros of the Riemann zeta function
• critical pair
  Critical pair
  
  The term "critical pair" has two distinct meanings in mathematics: in #Usage in mathematical logic and in #Usage in order theory....
   - concepts in mathematical logic, and in order theory
• critical point (mathematics)
  Critical point (mathematics)
  
  In mathematics, a critical point is a Point on the domain of a function of a function where:* one dimension: the derivative is equality to 0 or a point where the function ceases to be differentiable....
   - point on a function where the derivative vanishes
• critical point (set theory)
  Critical point (set theory)
  
  In set theory, the critical point of an elementary embedding of a transitive class into another transitive class is the smallest ordinal which is not mapped to itself....
   - of an elementary embedding of a transitive class into another transitive class: the smallest ordinal which is not mapped to itself

Physics

• critical angle - the angle of incidence above which total internal reflection occurs.
• critical distance
  Critical distance
  
  Critical distance is, in sound physics, the distance at which the sound pressure level of the direct and the reverberation sound fields are equal when dealing with a directional source....
   - in audio physics, the distance at which the sound pressure level of the direct and the reverberant sound fields are equal when dealing with a directional source.
• critical mass
  Critical Mass
  
  Critical Mass is a bicycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 city around the world. While the ride was originally founded in 1992 with the idea of drawing attention to how unfriendly the city was to bicyclists, the leaderless structure of Critical Mass makes it impossible to assign it any one specific goal...
   - the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction.
• critical point (thermodynamics)
  Critical point (thermodynamics)
  
  In physical chemistry, thermodynamics, chemistry and condensed matter physics, a critical point, also called a critical state, specifies the conditions at which a phase boundary ceases to exist....
   - conditions (temperature, pressure) at which the liquid state of matter ceases to exist
• critical phenomena
  Critical phenomena
  
  In physics, critical phenomena is the collective name associated with thephysics of critical point s. Most of them stem from the divergence of the...
   - associated with critical points
• critical speed
  Critical speed
  
  In Solid mechanics, in the field of rotordynamics, the critical speed is the theoretical angular velocity which excites the natural frequency of a rotating object, such as a shaft, propeller or gear....
   - the theoretical angular velocity which excites the natural frequency of a screw or gear.

Process control

• Critical Control Point
  Critical Control Point
  
  Critical Control Point is a point, step or procedure at which controls can be applied and a food safety hazard can be prevented, eliminated or reduced to acceptable levels....
   - a point, step or procedure at which controls can be applied and a food safety hazard can be prevented, eliminated or reduced to acceptable (critical) levels
• critical hours
  Critical hours
  
  Critical Hours is that time from sunrise to two hours after sunrise, and from two hours before sunset until sunset, local time. During that time, certain American radio stations may be operating with reduced power as a result of Section 73.187 of the Federal Communications Commission's Rules....
   - from sunrise to two hours after sunrise, and from two hours before sunset until sunset, local time
• critical path method
  Critical path method
  
  The Critical Path Method, abbreviated CPM, or Critical Path Analysis, is a mathematically based algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities....
   - project management algorithm
• Critical Security Parameter
  Critical Security Parameter
  
  In cryptography, the abbreviation CSP may refer to Critical Security Parameter. A Critical Security Parameter is information that is either user or system defined and is used to operate a cryptography module in processing encryption functions....
   - information that is either user or system defined and is used to operate a cryptography module in processing encryption functions
• Critical Success Factor
  Critical success factor
  
  Critical Success Factor is a business Advocate term for an element which is necessary for an organization or project to achieve its mission statement....
   - an element which is necessary for an organization or project to achieve its mission.

Aviation

• critical angle of attack
  Angle of attack
  
  Angle of attack is a term used in aerodynamics to describe the angle between the chord of an airfoil and the vector representing the relative motion between the airfoil and the air....
   - such that the airflow has separated
  Flow separation
  
  All solid objects travelling through a fluid acquire a boundary layer of fluid around them where Viscosity occur in the layer of fluid close to the solid surface....
   from a substantial portion of the upper surface of the airfoil
• critical area
  Critical area
  
  Critical area can refer to one of the following:...
   - designated area of an airport that all aircraft must remain clear of when another aircraft is inbound on an ILS approach
• critical engine
  Critical engine
  
  The critical engine of a multi-engine, fixed-wing aircraft is the one whose failure would result in the most adverse effects on the aircraft's handling and performance...
   - the one whose failure would result in the most adverse effects on the aircraft's handling and performance
• critical mach - the speed at which some of the airflow on a wing becomes supersonic.

Other

• Critical (novel)
  Critical (novel)
  
  Critical is a medical thriller written by Dr. Robin Cook ....
   - a medical thriller written by Dr. Robin Cook
• critical focus
  Critical focus
  
  In a photograph, the area of critical focus is the portion of the picture that is optically focus . This does not relate to depth of field which describes apparent sharpness....
   - the portion of a photograph that is optically in focus
• critical hit
  Critical hit
  
  In many role-playing games and computer and video games, a critical hit is a successful attack that deals more damage than a normal blow.The 1975 role-playing game Empire of the Petal Throne introduced the concept of critical hits ....
   - in role-playing games, a successful attack that deals more damage than a normal hit
• critical load
  Critical load
  
  In the study of air pollution, a critical load is defined as ?A quantitative estimate of an exposure to one or more pollutants below which significant harmful effects on specified sensitive elements of the environment do not occur according to present knowledge?....
   - of a pollutant, minimum exposure threshold for known harmful effects
• critical section
  Critical section
  
  In concurrent programming a critical section is a piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution....
   - piece of code requiring single-thread to a shared device
• Critical Software - company specializing in mission and business critical information systems.
• Critical Software Technologies, UK subsidiary