Meanings (ES + gloss)
crítico
Inclined to find fault or criticize.
A good teacher is fair but critical.
Let us go back to the beginning and consider what the charge is that has made people so critical of me, and has encouraged Meletus to draw up this indictment.
álgido
Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family p…
This is a critical moment.
clave • coyuntural • crítico • trascendental
Extremely important.
It's critical that you deliver this on time.
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a n…
crítico
Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
The reaction was about to become critical.
Phrases
Critical MassEurocriticalaccelerated critical illnessacriticalantecriticalanticriticalautocriticalbicriticalbiocriticalbusiness-criticalcricondenthermcrifanaccritical Reynolds numbercritical altitudecritical anglecritical apparatuscritical applied linguisticscritical brain hypothesiscritical carecritical commentarycritical conditioncritical dissonancecritical exponentcritical functioncritical hitcritical illnesscritical incident stress managementcritical loadcritical masscritical micelle concentrationcritical opalescencecritical pathcritical periodcritical philosophycritical pointcritical point dryingcritical race theorycritical rationalismcritical receptioncritical section
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