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postcritical

postcritical adjective: following criticism; after all criticism has ended.

Adjective

postcritical (not comparable)

  1. Following criticism; after all criticism has ended
  2. Pertaining to the set of all images of the critical points of a function.
    • Given a rational map R, we consider the complement of the postcritical set S#95;R.2015, Carlos Cabrera, Peter Makienko, “On hyperbolic metric and asymptotically finite invariant differentials in holomorphic dynamics”, in arXiv

Forms of postcritical

alternative formpost-critical

Origin of postcritical

From post- + critical.

Questions about postcritical

What does postcritical mean?
Postcritical means following criticism; after all criticism has ended.
What part of speech is postcritical?
Postcritical is an adjective.

Words near postcritical in the dictionary

  1. postcricoid
  2. postcrime
  3. postcrisis
  4. postcristid
  5. postcristids
  6. postcritical
  7. postcritically
  8. postcruciate
  9. postcrural
  10. postcryopreserved
  11. postcrystallisation

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