Definitions for critical mass
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1. critical massnoun

   the minimum amount (of something) required to start or maintain a venture

   "the battle for the computer market has now reached critical mass"; "there is now a critical mass of successful women to take the lead"; "they sold the business because it lacked critical mass"

2. critical massnoun

   the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction

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1. critical massnoun

   the amount of fissile material that is needed to support a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction

2. critical massnoun

   A quantity or amount required to trigger a phenomenon.

3. Critical Massnoun

   A direct action event in which bicycle riders travel through city streets as a group.

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1. Critical mass

   In nuclear engineering, a critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction. The critical mass of a fissionable material depends upon its nuclear properties (specifically, its nuclear fission cross-section), density, shape, enrichment, purity, temperature, and surroundings. The concept is important in nuclear weapon design.

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1. critical mass

   Critical mass refers to the minimum amount or quantity required to cause a significant effect, start a process, or make something self-sustaining. In physics, it refers to the minimum amount of fissile material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reaction. Similarly, in the context of social dynamics, it could refer to the proportion of adopters of an idea or behavior necessary for mass adoption or substantial change.

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1. Critical Mass

   Critical Mass is a cycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 cities around the world. The ride was originally founded in 1992 in San Francisco. The purpose of Critical Mass is not usually formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets on bikes. Some bigger scale events as in Budapest, Hungary, have an activist group formed around it, organizing the rides and communicating the desires and problems of the cyclists to the city council. Critical Mass rides have been perceived as protest. A 2006 New Yorker magazine article described Critical Mass' activity in New York City as "monthly political-protest rides", and characterized Critical Mass as a part of a social movement; and the UK e-zine Urban75, which advertises as well as publishes photographs of the Critical Mass event in London, describes this as "the monthly protest by cyclists reclaiming the streets of London." Critical Mass participants have insisted that these events should be viewed as "celebrations" and spontaneous gatherings, and not as protests or organized demonstrations. This stance allows Critical Mass to argue a legal position that its events can occur without advance notification of local police.

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1. critical mass

   In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction. Of a software product, describes a condition of the software such that fixing one bug introduces one plus epsilon bugs. (This malady has many causes: creeping featurism, ports to too many disparate environments, poor initial design, etc.) When software achieves critical mass, it can never be fixed; it can only be discarded and rewritten.

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1. critical mass

   The minimum amount of fissionable material capable of supporting a chain reaction under precisely specified conditions.

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1. critical mass

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2. critical mass

   Read the full text of the Critical Mass poem by Robert Strong on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of critical mass in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of critical mass in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of critical mass in a Sentence

1. Bill Fay:

   We need the government to support the investment in this and we hope that Honda and Hyundai will be coming in and provide some support, then I think we have some critical mass to build from and take off from there.

2. Kingsley Douglas:

   Western countries are looking out for their citizens first before looking elsewhere. I do not begrudge them for being protectionist in their approach, nonetheless, it is in the interest of everyone that the critical mass of the world's population gets vaccinated and protected against Covid. Vaccines should be uniformly and equitably distributed.

3. Grzegorz Zawada:

   Once we reach a critical mass, somebody will be the first mover and I think it will change the whole co-location thing.

4. George Will:

   When SiSi of Egypt, head of the most important nation in the world for the Islamic world… gives an extraordinary speech saying this is a disgrace what's being done and there must be a reformation in Islam, it is just possible we've reached a critical mass of horror and things are going to change.

5. New York:

   If undocumented people don't get vaccinated, it compromises their health and it compromises the whole program, again, the program only works if you hit a critical mass of the population.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=critical mass
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Critical_Mass
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=critical mass
6. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#CriticalMass
7. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf