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critical point

/krit-i-kuhl point/US // ˈkrɪt ɪ kəl ˈpɔɪnt //

临界点,关键点,极限点,阈值

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Physics. the point at which a substance in one phase, as the liquid, has the same density, pressure, and temperature as in another phase, as the gaseous: The volume of water at the critical point is uniquely determined by the critical temperature.
    • : Mathematics. a point at which the derivative of the function is zero: One critical point, at x = 0, is a decreasing function for positive x. a point at which all partial derivatives of the function are zero: Find and classify all the critical points of the given function.

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  • It reached a critical point this summer when the agency took the unusual step of freezing his assets, which Kalkhoven has decried and is fighting in court.

  • Another critical point is that our police lack the equipment necessary to do their jobs well.

  • Treating shareholder interests as separate from broader social and environmental considerations misses a critical point.

  • His assumption was that the critical point marked the intensity at which the heart and lungs could no longer deliver enough oxygen to the muscles.

  • The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.

  • Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link  or infrared pointer at this point.

  • But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.

  • This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

  • His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.

  • Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

  • That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.

  • When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.