Critical or Critically may refer to:
*Critical, or critical but stable,
medical state
Medical state is a term used to describe a hospital patient's health status, or condition. The term is most commonly used in information given to the news media, and is rarely used as a clinical description by physicians.
Two aspects of the pati ...
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**Critical, or
intensive care medicine
Intensive care medicine, also called critical care medicine, is a medical specialty that deals with seriously or critically ill patients who have, are at risk of, or are recovering from conditions that may be life-threatening. It includes pro ...
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Critical juncture
Critical juncture theory focuses on critical junctures, i.e., large, rapid, discontinuous changes, and the long-term causal effect or historical legacy of these changes.
Critical junctures are turning points that alter the course of evolution of ...
, a discontinuous change studied in the social sciences.
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Critical Software
Critical Software is a Portuguese international information systems and software company, headquartered in Coimbra. The company was established in 1998, from the University of Coimbra's business incubator and technology transfer centre, Institut ...
, a company specializing in mission and business critical information systems
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Critical theory, a school of thought that critiques society and culture by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities
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Critically endangered, a risk status for wild species
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Criticality (status)
In the operation of a nuclear reactor, criticality is the state in which a nuclear chain reaction is self-sustaining—that is, when reactivity is zero. In supercritical states, reactivity is greater than zero.
Applications
Criticality is the no ...
, the condition of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction
Art, entertainment, and media
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''Critical'' (novel), a medical thriller written by Robin Cook
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''Critical'' (TV series), a Sky 1 TV series
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"Critical" (''Person of Interest''), an episode of the American television drama series ''Person of Interest''
*"Critical", a 1999 single by
Zion I
Zion I was an American hip hop project founded by MC and producer Baba Zumbi (real name Stephen Gaines) in Oakland, California. K-Genius and Amp Live were also project members.
Career
Originally formed as a group, Zion I released the debut ...
People
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Cr1TiKaL
Charles Christopher White Jr. (born August 2, 1994), better known as MoistCr1TiKaL (pronounced "moist critical") or simply Cr1TiKaL, is an American YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and musician who is known for his commentary videos on YouTube, as w ...
(born 1994), an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
See also
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Critic
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Criticality (disambiguation)
Criticality may refer to:
Physics terms
*Critical phenomena, the collective name associated with the physics of critical points
** Critical point (thermodynamics), the end point of a phase equilibrium curve
** Quantum critical point, a special cla ...
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Critical Condition (disambiguation)
Medical state is a term used to describe a hospital patient's health status, or condition. The term is most commonly used in information given to the news media, and is rarely used as a clinical description by physicians.
Two aspects of the pati ...
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Criticism
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Crisis
A crisis ( : crises; : critical) is either any event or period that will (or might) lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, or all of society. Crises are negative changes in the human or environmental affair ...
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Critique
Critique is a method of disciplined, systematic study of a written or oral discourse. Although critique is commonly understood as fault finding and negative judgment,Rodolphe Gasché (2007''The honor of thinking: critique, theory, philosophy''p ...
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