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`From "Chambers 21st Century Dictionary"
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` Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, © Chambers Harrap Publishers Limited 2001
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`adjective
`1. fault-finding; disapproving.
`2. relating to a critic or criticism.
`3. involving analysis and assessment.
`4. relating to a crisis; decisive; crucial.
`5. urgent; vital.
`6. said of a patient: so ill or seriously injured as to be at risk of dying.
`7. physics denoting a state, level or value at which there is a significant change in the properties of a
`system critical mass critical temperature.
`8. nuclear physics said of a fissionable material, a nuclear reactor, etc: having reached the point at which a
`nuclear chain reaction is self-sustaining.
`Derivatives
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`critically adverb.
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`criticality noun.
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`criticalness noun.
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` Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, © Chambers Harrap Publishers Limited 2001
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`APA
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`Critical. (2001). In M. Robinson & G. Davidson (Eds.), Chambers 21st Century Dictionary. London,
`United Kingdom: Chambers Harrap. Retrieved from
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`"Critical." Chambers 21st Century Dictionary. Eds. Mairi Robinson and George Davidson. London:
`Chambers Harrap, 2001. Credo Reference. Web. 20 Sep 2015.
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`Chicago
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`"Critical". 2001. In Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, edited by Mairi Robinson and George Davidson.
`London: Chambers Harrap. http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/chambdict/critical/0
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`Harvard
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`Critical (2001). [Online]. In M Robinson & G Davidson (eds.). Chambers 21st Century Dictionary.
`London, United Kingdom: Chambers Harrap. Available from:
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