subcritical

English

adj
Definitions
  • Of less than critical importance
  • Having a numerical value less than some critical value
  • (physics) Having insufficient mass to sustain a chain reaction

Etymology

Prefix from English critical root from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (separate, seive, divide, touch, strip, sieve, sift, graze, split, I separate, shake, streak, pick out, I move, part).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*krey-

Gloss

separate, seive, divide, touch, strip, sieve, sift, graze, split, I separate, shake, streak, pick out, I move, part

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Kanji

分

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