English-Dutch translations for critical point

• kritisch punt
  Een ander kritisch punt, speciaal door onze Britse collega's aangebracht, is het punt van de deregulering. Another critical point, which our British colleagues were particularly concerned to raise, is that concerning deregulation.
  Al met al moeten alle maatregelen tegen de economische crisis tot doel hebben te voorkomen dat de opwarming van de aarde een kritisch punt bereikt. All in all, every cure for the economic crisis should have as its aim the prevention of global warming reaching a critical point.
  Hoewel de NEAFC het beter doet dan andere RVO's, bevinden de voornaamste visbestanden in het verdragsgebied zich op een kritisch punt. Even though the NEAFC is performing better than other RFMOs, the status of the main fish stocks in the convention area is at a critical point.

Definition of critical point

• The temperature and pressure at which the vapour density of the gas and liquid phases of a fluid are equal, at which point there is no difference between gas and liquid
• A juncture at which time a critical decision must be made

Related words

• critical
• self-critical
• diacritical
• uncritically
• critically
• hypocritical
• uncritical
• mission-critical
• hypercritical
• criticality