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Definition of Critical point
1. Noun. A crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made. "He must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"
Definition of Critical point
1. Noun. (thermodynamics) The temperature and pressure at which the vapour density of the gas and liquid phases of a fluid are equal, at which point there is no difference between gas and liquid. ¹
2. Noun. (mathematics) A maximum, minimum or point of inflection on a curve; a point at which the derivative of a function is zero or undefined. ¹
3. Noun. A juncture at which time a critical decision must be made. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Critical point
1. A point at which two phases become identical; thus, at a given critical temperature and critical pressure, the liquid and gaseous state of a particular substance can no longer be differentiated. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Critical Point
Literary usage of Critical point
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Physics by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"Up to the critical point the pressure of vapour in contact with the water was
... The refractive index has also been used to find the critical point. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"On the critical point in Rolled Steel Joists. By EJ EDWARDS. ... The curves cross
each other, and the point of crossing the author calls the critical point. ..."
3. A Course in Mathematical Analysis by Édouard Goursat, Earle Raymond Hedrick (1917)
"Permutation of the integrals around a critical point. Let a be an isolated singular
point of some of the coefficients pv p2, • • •, pn of the linear ..."
4. The Properties of Electrically Conducting Systems: Including Electrolytes by Charles August Kraus (1922)
"The Conductance of Solutions in the Neighborhood of the critical point. ...
Fluids above the critical point yield electrolytic solutions and even the ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1880)
"The critical point was found to be 51° "25 C. It will be seen from this table,
that the volumes of the saturated vapours and liquid gradually approach each ..."
6. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1904)
"The presence of the second substance thus appeared to raise the critical point.
This may perhaps arise from the formation of some new compound under ..."
7. The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel by Albert Sauveur (1918)
"C. the existence of which he ascribed to the presence of hydrogen resulting in
a separation of hydroxide of iron taking place at this critical point. ..."
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