Noun: critical point kri-ti-kul poynt
- A crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
"he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point";
- juncture, crossroads, climacteric
- (mathematics) a point at which a function has zero, infinite or undefined derivative (in more than one dimension a point where the rank of the Jacobian matrix is not maximal)
"The optimization problem involved finding the critical points of the function"
Derived forms: critical points
Type of: crisis
Encyclopedia: Critical point