0 judging sb or sth negatively -- kritisk
1 having an extremely important effect on a result -- kritisk
2 looking carefully at details before judging -- kritisk
3 (of a patient at a hospital) very seriously ill or injured -- i kritisk tilstand
The man is reported to be in critical condition. Mannens tilstand sies å være kritisk.
4 judging and analysing -- (tekst)kritisk
He has written several critical works on Shakespeare.
5 fault-finding -- kritisk
He tends to be critical of his children.
The average expresses both the moderate quality of the studies and a quite critical attitude to the music teaching received.
Unfortunately, many cognitive scientists have opted for a preferred cognitive paradigm while ignoring or misinterpreting critical technical issues.
The great technical problem of such a system is the critical mass of a fission chain reaction, making it difficult to miniaturize a fission explosion.
We compare the parameter values for which there exists a strategy such that the process survives to the critical parameter of ordinary percolation.
Indeed, the presupposition of reliance on such standards is that they have survived similar critical scrutiny.
The existence of discrete levels of critical water potential is suggestive of specific stresses that cells must accommodate during the acquisition of desiccation tolerance.
This critical time gap is a key factor to determine the intercept capability of vision-based robotic systems.
A critical developmental task of adolescence, therefore, is the construction of multiple selves in different roles and relationships.
