plural of armchair critic

A person who makes criticisms on a subject they have little knowledge of or practical experience in.

Alternative form of gender-critical. / Alternative form of gender-critical: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gender, critical.

(informal) A person who holds gender-critical beliefs.

Critically examining the role of gender in a text, a person's experiences, etc. / (UK, neologism) Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to gender-critical feminism.

Alternative form of noncritical.

plural of prompt criticality

plural of delayed criticality

(nuclear physics) Of the point at which the prompt neutrons and delayed neutrons produced by a nuclear fission chain reaction, taken together, are just sufficient to sustain the chain reaction, where changes in reaction power occur slowly.

(nuclear physics) The point at which the prompt neutrons and delayed neutrons produced by a nuclear fission chain reaction, taken together, are just sufficient to sustain the chain reaction (the state of being delayed critical); in this state, changes in reaction power occur slowly, allowing the reaction to be controlled on human timescales, due to the relatively long time delay associated with the emission of the delayed neutrons necessary to maintain the chain reaction.