(programming) A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.

plural of critical function

plural of critical path

(ecology) The maximum load that a given system can sustain before it fails.

plural of critical load

(physics) The temperature at the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.

A movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle of the 20th century, emphasizing close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.

(physics, of a linear dynamic system) Possessing a damping ratio of exactly 1.

(medicine) Intensive care.

(mathematics, computing theory) The greatest number of times that a contiguous subsequence can be repeated.