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• Critical point (mathematics) — See also: Critical point (set theory) The abcissae of the red circles are stationary points; the blue squares are inflection points. It s important to note that the stationary points are critical points, but the inflection points are not nor are… …   Wikipedia

• Critical point (thermodynamics) — Carbon dioxide creating a fog when cooling from supercritical to critical temperature In physical chemistry, thermodynamics, chemistry and condensed matter physics, a critical point, also called a critical state, specifies the conditions… …   Wikipedia

• critical point — 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. 2. Math. a. (of a function of a single variable) a point at which the derivative of the… …   Universalium

• Critical point (set theory) — In set theory, the critical point of an elementary embedding of a transitive class into another transitive class is the smallest ordinal which is not mapped to itself.[1] Suppose that j : N → M is an elementary embedding where N and M are… …   Wikipedia

• critical point — noun a) 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. b) A maximum, m …   Wiktionary

• critical point — noun 1》 Chemistry a set of conditions at which both the liquid and gas phases of a substance have the same density, and are therefore indistinguishable. 2》 US term for stationary point …   English new terms dictionary

• Quantum critical point — A quantum critical point is a special class of continuous phase transition that takes place at the absolute zero of temperature, typically in a material where the phase transition temperature has been driven to zero by the application of a… …   Wikipedia

• Critical exponent — Critical exponents describe the behaviour of physical quantities near continuous phase transitions. It is believed, though not proven, that they are universal, i.e. they do not depend on the details of the physical system, but only on the… …   Wikipedia

• Critical Chain Project Management — (CCPM) is a method of planning and managing projects that puts more emphasis on the resources required to execute project tasks developed by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. This is in contrast to the more traditional Critical Path and PERT methods, which… …   Wikipedia

• Critical chain project management — Critical Chain redirects here. For the novel, see Critical Chain (novel). Critical chain project management (CCPM) is a method of planning and managing projects that puts the main emphasis on the resources required to execute project tasks. It… …   Wikipedia

• Critical variable — Critical variables are defined, for example in thermodynamics, in terms of the values of variables at the critical point. On a PV diagram, the critical point is an inflection point. Thus: For the van der Waals equation, the above yields …   Wikipedia