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单词 subcritical
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Definition of subcritical in English:

subcritical

adjective 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. 1.1 (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.
    2. 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:

subcritical

adjectivesəbˈkridək(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. 1.1 (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.
    2. 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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