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  • adjective physics Describing systems, points etc., that are critical in multiple ways

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multi- +‎ critical

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  • For almost 15 years, research on SrTiO3 and related perovskite compounds absorbed my interest: this work, performed with Walter Berlinger, concerned the photochromic properties of various doped transition-metal ions and their chemical binding, ferroelectric and soft-mode properties, and later especially critical and multicritical phenomena of structural phase transitions.

    K. Alex Müller - Autobiography 1987

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