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词汇 critical-mass
释义 critical mass
noun[ Cusually singular or U ]
uk /ˌkrɪt.ɪ.kəl ˈmæs/ us /ˌkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl ˈmæs/
physics specialized
the smallest amount of matter that is needed to produce a nuclear chain reaction临界质量(实现核子连锁反应所需要的物质的最小量)
the size that something needs to reach before a particular change, event, or development can happen产生质变所需的量
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critical mass | Business English


critical mass
noun[ U or S ]
ukus
the size or number that something needs to reach before a particular change or development can happen:
They believe that they have achieved critical mass, that is a size that is necessary for the company to survive.
The challenge is to attract a critical mass of customers that will enable the business to start making a profit.

Examples of critical mass


critical mass
A minimum criticalmass of primary care staff committed to research is needed to drive an evaluation forward.
This subset is the criticalmass needed to begin any collective action.
These functional relations will show that there exists a criticalmass ratio, below which the synchronization regime extends to infinity.
The great technical problem of such a system is the criticalmass of a fission chain reaction, making it difficult to miniaturize a fission explosion.
It enlarges the criticalmass and opens possibilities for sharing facilities.
These investigators speculated that a criticalmass of scar tissue provided the substrate for ventricular arrhythmias.
It would certainly lack the criticalmass which is essential for progress.
There is a criticalmass for blow-up and a rich set of dynamics including families of similarity solutions for finite-time blow-up and infinite-time spreading.
This subset of fishermen can be considered as the criticalmass needed to initiate a collective action.
The extent of the criticalmass that is necessary for analogy to start operating is debatable.
Yet overemphasis on leaders amounts to neglect of the criticalmass necessary for a movement, often regarding them as simply objects of elite manipulation.
Did that have anything to do with achieving "criticalmass" in the amount of human capital?
To create a different world is a somewhat larger matter of reflexive behaviour on the part of a criticalmass of key actors.
It is intended to increase the criticalmass of cultural and entertainment facilities necessary to sustain the life of the city.
The criticalmass has not yet been reached, but we seem to be moving towards it.
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