Critical Point

Critical point may refer to:

  • Critical point (mathematics)
  • Critical point (set theory)
  • Critical point (thermodynamics)
  • Construction point of a ski jumping hill

Famous quotes containing the words critical and/or point:

    “A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing—he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”
    —Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)