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time-critical

time-critical adjective: sensitive to latency or small variations in time; time-sensitive.

Adjective

time-critical (comparative more time-critical, superlative most time-critical)

  1. Sensitive to latency or small variations in time; time-sensitive.
  2. Reliant on a deterministic ordering in time; time-dependent.
  3. Urgent.

Forms of time-critical

comparativemore time-critical
superlativemost time-critical

Questions about time-critical

What does time-critical mean?
Time-critical means sensitive to latency or small variations in time; time-sensitive.
What part of speech is time-critical?
Time-critical is an adjective.

Words near time-critical in the dictionary

  1. time-constructible functions
  2. time-consuming
  3. time-consumingly
  4. time-course
  5. time-courses
  6. time-critical
  7. time-delay
  8. time-delay measuring instrument
  9. time-delay measuring instruments
  10. time-delay measuring system
  11. time-delay measuring systems

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