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a specific point at which a significant change occurs, often used in scientific contexts such as physics or chemistry.
The water reached its critical point and began to boil.
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a crucial or decisive moment in a process or situation.
The negotiations reached a critical point when both parties refused to compromise.
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in mathematics, a point on a graph where the derivative is zero or undefined, indicating a potential maximum, minimum, or inflection point.
The function has a critical point at x = 2, where the slope of the tangent is zero.
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