Associations to the word «Criticality»

Wiktionary

CRITICALITY, noun. The state of being critical.
CRITICALITY, noun. (education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered to be contextually appropriate and that are expected to result in positive outcomes related to the purpose.
CRITICALITY, noun. (physics) The point at which a nuclear reaction becomes self-sustaining.

Dictionary definition

CRITICALITY, noun. A state of critical urgency.
CRITICALITY, noun. A critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats