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Critical vs Judging - What's the difference?

critical | judging |

As nouns the difference between critical and judging

is that critical is a critical value, factor, etc while judging is the act of making a judgment.

As an adjective critical

is inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.

As a verb judging is

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critical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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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  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
  • 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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    • Derived terms

    {{der3, criticality , critically , criticalness , critical angle , critical mass , critical point , critical thinking , mission-critical , pseudocritical , supercritical}}

    Related terms

    * critic * criticism

    See also

    * (wikipedia "critical") * (Medical state)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A critical value, factor, etc.
  • * 1976 , American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Journal of engineering for industry (volume 98, page 508)
    • The second undamped system criticals show a greater percentage depression than the first.
  • * 2008 , John J. Coyle, C. John Langley, Brian Gibson, Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (page 564)
    • 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 -al

    judging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a judgment.
  • * 2004 , Dale Jacquette, The Cambridge Companion to Brentano (page 75)
    • It is the contrasts between blind and self-evident judgings and between blind and correct affective attitudes which provide Brentano with the beginnings of an account of the dynamics of the mind which involves more than merely causal claims.