critical dimension

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critical
adjective
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/ˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl/
saying that someone or something is bad ...
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dimension
noun
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/ˌdaɪˈmen.ʃən/us
/ˌdaɪˈmen.ʃən/
a measurement of something in a particular direction, especially its height, length, ...
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While the system is still being constructed, however, argument structure, alongside semantics, is acriticaldimensionon which verbs can be compared to one another.
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It argues that the mostcriticaldimensionof transactions is the degree of asset specificity.
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As the following discussion will demonstrate, however, the standard view of policy change obscures acriticaldimensionof variation.
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By examining one of his examples closely, this commentary suggest that salience of the information supplied is acriticaldimension.
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Acriticaldimensionis that teachers become attuned to learners in online environments, to their expectations, their needs, their identities, their familiar learning communities and practices.
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However, when part 1 is attached, there is no slip plane parallel to thecriticaldimensionto absorb manufacturing variations that part $2,3% and 1 might carry.
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It is easy to slip into a vision of enlargement that is simple economic arithmetic and to ignore thecriticaldimension.
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A string theory which is formulated in thecriticaldimensionis called a critical string.
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Above thecriticaldimensionthe instability drives to a non-uniform black ring phase.
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Above the uppercriticaldimension, the quantum field theory which belongs to the model of the phase transition is a free field theory.
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These authors used the criterion to determine the lowercriticaldimensionof random field magnets.
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The dimension is called the uppercriticaldimensionabove which excluded volume is negligible.
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The bosons are again interpreted as spacetime dimensions and so thecriticaldimensionfor the superstring is 10.
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Below the lowercriticaldimensionthere is no phase transition.
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Below the lowercriticaldimension, there is no field theory corresponding to the model.
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A working definition is an electrode that has at least one dimension (thecriticaldimension) smaller than 25 m.
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For dilaton varying along a spacelike direction, the dimension of the theory is less than thecriticaldimensionand so the theory is termed subcritical.
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This dimension is called the uppercriticaldimension.
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Above the uppercriticaldimensionthe critical exponents of the theory become the same as that in mean field theory.
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