criticality
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
criticality (countable and uncountable, plural criticalities)
- The state of being critical. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered to be contextually appropriate and that are expected to result in positive outcomes related to the purpose.
- (physics) The point at which a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining.
Hyponyms[edit]
(state of a nuclear chain reaction):