Extremely important.
Inclined to find fault or criticize.
Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
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.
Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
A critical value, factor, etc.
In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
Essential; crucial; extremely important.
Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
A verb in imperative mood.
The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.