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  • 1critical — [[t]krɪ̱tɪk(ə)l[/t]] ♦♦ 1) ADJ GRADED A critical time, factor, or situation is extremely important. The incident happened at a critical point in the campaign... Environmentalists say a critical factor in the city s pollution is its population...… …

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  • 2Critical section — In concurrent programming a critical section is a piece of code that accesses a shared resource (data structure or device) that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution. A critical section will usually terminate in… …

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  • 3critical — adjective 1) a highly critical report Syn: censorious, condemnatory, condemning, denunciatory, disparaging, disapproving, scathing, fault finding, judgmental, accusatory, negative, unfavorable; informal nitpicking, picky Ant …

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  • 4critical — adjective 1) a highly critical report Syn: disapproving, disparaging, scathing, fault finding, judgemental, negative, unfavourable, censorious; informal nit picking, picky 2) the situation is critical Syn: serious …

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  • 5Situation awareness — Situation awareness, or SA, is the perception of environmental elements within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future. It is also a field of study concerned with… …

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  • 6Critical theory — Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas David Rasmussen HEGEL, MARX AND THE IDEA OF A CRITICAL THEORY Critical theory1 is a metaphor for a certain kind of theoretical orientation which owes its origin to Hegel and Marx, its systematization to Horkheimer and …

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  • 7Critical Situation — Also known as Situation Critical Genre Documentary, Disaster, Survival Narrated by N/A Country of origin United States …

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  • 8Critical Path (video game) — Critical Path Developer(s) Mechadeus Publisher(s) Media Vision Technology Platform(s) Windows 3.x, Macintosh Rel …

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  • 9Critical pedagogy — Major works Pedagogy of the Oppressed …

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  • 10Critical Infrastructure Protection — or CIP is a national program to assure the security of vulnerable and interconnected infrastructures of the United States. In May 1998, President Bill Clinton issued Presidential directive PDD 63 [ [http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd/pdd 63.htm… …

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