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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made;
- Example: "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"
- Example: "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"
[syn: juncture, critical point, crossroads]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

critical point \crit"ic*al point\ (Physics),
   That combination of volume and pressure, at the critical
   temperature of the substance, at which the liquid and gaseous
   phases of a given quantity of a substance have identical
   values for their densities and other properties.
   [PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

critical point
    n 1: a crisis situation or point in time when a critical
         decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea
         what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company
         stands at a critical point" [syn: juncture, critical
         point, crossroads]