- Critical moment - Point in time - A joining; a union; an alliance. - The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a
joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the
bones. - A point of time; esp., one made critical or important by
a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency.
- Crucial - Vital - Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary
or artistic productions. - Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the
nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical
dissertation. - Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise
careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious. - Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious;
captious; censorious; exacting. - Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to
principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.
- Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or
forced. - Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid
by pressure; -- said of any gas above its critical point; -- also
particularly of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide,
formerly regarded as incapable of liquefaction at any temperature or
pressure. - That can note be confined in, or excluded from,
vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable
fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc.