Criticality
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Criticality may refer to:
- Critical mass, in nuclear reactions
- Critical phenomena, in statistical mechanics
- Critical thinking, in education
- Criticality accident, an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction
- Criticality index, in risk analysis
- Criticality matrix, a representation (often graphical) of failure modes along with their probabilities and severities
- Nuclear criticality safety, a field of nuclear engineering dedicated to the prevention of nuclear and radiation accidents resulting from an inadvertent, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
- Prompt critical, an assembly for each nuclear fission event
- Self-organized criticality, a property of (classes of) dynamical systems which have a critical point as an attractor
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