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Definition of subcritical in English: subcriticaladjective sʌbˈkrɪtɪk(ə)lsəbˈkrɪdək(ə)l Physics 1Below a critical threshold. Example sentencesExamples - The US has not performed a nuclear test in 10 years, although it has conducted at least 17 subcritical tests - the most recent in August - which are allowed under the CTBT.
- At subcritical forward velocities, here less than 0.16 nL / sec, the template predicts that no stable gaits exist.
- 1.1 (in nuclear physics) containing or involving less than the critical mass.
Example sentencesExamples - The most obvious was the gun assembly technique, in which two subcritical masses of enriched uranium were explosively driven and held together until nuclear fission began and was sustained.
- She watched the reactor output climb until the drive was subcritical.
- Notwithstanding, the U.S. government continues to possess and maintain approximately 10,000 nuclear weapons, and is conducting an ongoing program of subcritical nuclear testing.
- In a fission bomb, the fuel must be kept in separate subcritical masses, which will not support fission, to prevent premature detonation.
- When the fuse is triggered, a conventional explosion causes the second subcritical mass to be propelled at a high velocity into the first subcritical mass.
- 1.2 (of a flow of fluid) slower than the speed at which waves travel in the fluid.
Example sentencesExamples - At 20°C the solution has a critical point at ionic strengths of ~ 13 mM and becomes increasingly subcritical as the ionic strength is lowered.
Rhymes analytical, apolitical, critical, cryptanalytical, diacritical, eremitical, geopolitical, hypercritical, hypocritical, political, socio-political Definition of subcritical in US English: subcriticaladjectivesəbˈkridək(ə)lsəbˈkrɪdək(ə)l Physics 1Below a critical threshold. Example sentencesExamples - The US has not performed a nuclear test in 10 years, although it has conducted at least 17 subcritical tests - the most recent in August - which are allowed under the CTBT.
- At subcritical forward velocities, here less than 0.16 nL / sec, the template predicts that no stable gaits exist.
- 1.1 (in nuclear physics) containing or involving less than the critical mass.
Example sentencesExamples - Notwithstanding, the U.S. government continues to possess and maintain approximately 10,000 nuclear weapons, and is conducting an ongoing program of subcritical nuclear testing.
- The most obvious was the gun assembly technique, in which two subcritical masses of enriched uranium were explosively driven and held together until nuclear fission began and was sustained.
- She watched the reactor output climb until the drive was subcritical.
- When the fuse is triggered, a conventional explosion causes the second subcritical mass to be propelled at a high velocity into the first subcritical mass.
- In a fission bomb, the fuel must be kept in separate subcritical masses, which will not support fission, to prevent premature detonation.
- 1.2 (of a flow of fluid) slower than the speed at which waves travel in the fluid.
Example sentencesExamples - At 20°C the solution has a critical point at ionic strengths of ~ 13 mM and becomes increasingly subcritical as the ionic strength is lowered.
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