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How to pronounce “critical”
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Pronunciation guide for critical
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of critical with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Sales Acceleration Formula
it was absolutely critical that we
- Definition summary
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce critical
The Sales Acceleration Formula
it was absolutely critical that we
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “critical”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Extremely important.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (medicine) 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 facility.
- (medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (physics) 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 liquefied.
- (botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
- [Noun]
- A critical value, factor, etc.
- In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
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