critical

kritisch

Inclined to find fault or criticize

• He was in critical condition.

  Er befand sich in einem kritischen Zustand.

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• Do not be so critical.

  Sei nicht so kritisch.

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kritisch

Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point

kritisch

Extremely important

kritisch

Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism

kritisch

Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.; Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the originalselten

kritisch

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 facilityselten

kritisch

In such a conditionselten

kritisch

Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stableselten

kritisch

Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustainingselten

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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 liquefiedselten