criticality
kri tuh ka luh tee
- n a state of critical urgency
- n a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining
- The underlying premise of the show is that there has been a division between the conceptual and the perceptual, between the "criticality" crowd and the beauty crowd.
- Moreover, some of them are among the more than 1,500 "criticality 1" parts -- that is, items without backup whose failure could end the mission, perhaps catastrophically.
- They are maintained meticulously -- because of the criticality of every component.