supercritical
adjEtymology From super- + critical.
› Of a substance or system above a critical…
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of a fluid Above its critical temperature and critical pressure.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of a fissile material Having a mass sufficient to sustain an accelerating fission chain reaction.
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Aerodynamics, Aerospace, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Above the speed of sound.
- Antonyms
- subcritical
- Derived terms
- supercritical airfoil, supercritical drying, supercritical field, supercritical flow, supercritical fluid, supercriticality, supercritically, supercritical mass, supercritical reactor, supercritical wing
- Related terms
- hypercritical, noncritical, overcritical, ultracritical, uncritical