Critical vs Acceptance - What's the difference?
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Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
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Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
Extremely important.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
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(lb) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
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Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
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Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
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A critical value, factor, etc.
* 1976 , American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Journal of engineering for industry (volume 98, page 508)
* 2008 , John J. Coyle, C. John Langley, Brian Gibson, Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (page 564)
The act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval
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Belief in something; agreement; assent.
State of being accepted.
* Shakespeare: Rape of Lucrece :
(business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
(business, finance) The bill of exchange itself when accepted.
An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
(legal) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
(US, government) The act of an authorized representative of the Government by which the Government assents to ownership by it of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
(Australia, New Zealand, pluralonly) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
As nouns the difference between critical and acceptance
is that critical is a critical value, factor, etc while acceptance is the act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval.As an adjective critical
is inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.critical
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Derived terms
{{der3, criticality , critically , criticalness , critical angle , critical mass , critical point , critical thinking , mission-critical , pseudocritical , supercritical}}See also
* (wikipedia "critical") * (Medical state)Noun
(en noun)- The second undamped system criticals show a greater percentage depression than the first.
- Finally, criticals are high-risk, high-value items that give the final product a competitive advantage in the marketplace Criticals, in part, determine the customer's ultimate cost of using the finished product — in our example, the computer.
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* * * English words suffixed with -alacceptance
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* (obsolete) (l)Noun
(en noun)- the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
- They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.
- Makes it assured of acceptance .