Definitions for crucial
ˈkru ʃəlcru·cial

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. crucial, importantadjective

   of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

   "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women"

2. crucialadjective

   having crucial relevance

   "crucial to the case"; "relevant testimony"

3. all-important(a), all important(p), crucial, essential, of the essence(p)adjective

   of the greatest importance

   "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"

Wiktionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. crucialadjective

   Being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.

2. crucialadjective

   Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.

3. crucialadjective

   Term of approval, particularly when applied to reggae music.

   Delbert Wilkins is the most crucial pirate radio DJ in Brixton.

4. Etymology: 1706, from crucial, a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other), from Latin crux (English crux), from the (s)ker-.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crucialadjective

   Transverse; intersecting one another.

   Etymology: crux crucis, Latin.

   Whoever has seen the practice of the crucial incision, must be sensible of the false reasoning used in its favour. Samuel Sharp.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crucialadjective

   having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision

2. Crucialadjective

   severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test

3. Etymology: [F. crucial, fr. L. crux, crucis, cross, torture. See Cross.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crucial

   "Crucial" is New Edition's fourth single from the Heart Break album. The single featured production from Jellybean Johnson, Spencer Bernard, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Despite failing to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, "Crucial" hit #4 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, making it one of New Edition's more popular singles from the post-Bobby Brown era. It was used in the License to Drive soundtrack.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crucial

   krōō′shi-al, adj. testing, searching, from the practice of marking a testing instance with a cross to draw attention to it.—adj. Cru′ciāte (bot.), arranged in the form of a cross, as leaves or petals. [Fr. crucial, from L. crux, crucis, a cross.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crucial' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2273

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crucial' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3949

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crucial' in Adjectives Frequency: #301

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of crucial in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of crucial in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of crucial in a Sentence

1. Paul Northcott:

   Paul Northcott said. Grants for early investigators like Paul Northcott may also help them obtain bigger funding opportunities through the National Institutes of Health( National Institutes of Health). We're able to recruit, we're able to conduct studies that we wouldn't have been able to otherwise. This then helps us build the necessary foundation to go after National Institutes of Health funding and getting that first RO1 through the NCI( National Cancer Institute), Paul Northcott said. One of the toughest hurdles for young investigators is securing their first R01, the gold standard of grants that give scientists enough money and time to complete a project and publish results within four or five years. The budget for R01’s is unlimited. According to the director of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Norman Sharpless, the NCI is directing their extramural funders to set aside additional funding to increase the total number of first R01's given to early-stage investigators by at least 25 percent in 2018. By training more diverse groups of scientists, organizations like the National Cancer Institute hope to spur new commitments to basic science that can drive novel approaches and technologies to cancer treatment. Paul Northcott says supporting the next generation of cancer scientists is crucial to ensuring a talented and creative research workforce for the decades ahead. Oftentimes it’s difficult to see how studying a single gene or a pathway or a biochemical mechanism might have a broader impact, but I would encourage anyone involved and anyone starting out in this type of field to think about what is the goal of Cancer Research -LRB- AACR -RRB- ? How can this research change health care, or, in this case, cancer research ?

2. Matthias Rogg:

   It's the point from which everything is measured. It fed the myth that Dresden was the innocent victim of a pointless war and hid the fact that it was a center of Nazism and a significant hub for making armaments, and while the bombing of Dresden was dreadful, it's crucial that without Sept. 1 1939, without Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, London there wouldn't have been Dresden.

3. Andrew Prentice:

   In this particular example, the gene involved is really crucial – it lies at the center of the immune system so it affects our susceptibility to viral infection. At the very beginning of fetal growth, the way it is labeled is going to affect the baby’s health for the rest of its life.

4. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras:

   We will not allow Greece or any other country to be turned into a warehouse of souls, we are at a crucial moment for the future of Europe.

5. Clarence Mitchell:

   They certainly will be encouraged to know the appeal is yielding results already and hopefully within that, there will be crucial bits of information the police can act upon.

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