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- adjective physics That passes through a
critical state (i.e. betweensubcritical andsupercritical states)
Etymologies
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Nevertheless, we might take the coincidence of purposive antagonism, antagonism that aims toward an unrealized aesthetic objectivity, as a point of departure for a transcritical project situated in the unsteady ground between aesthetics and the sociology of culture.
Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008
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They compared the indicators with the timing of the decrease in food and with the achievement of the tipping point, mathematically referred to as a "transcritical bifurcation."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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They compared the indicators with the timing of the decrease in food and with the achievement of the tipping point, mathematically referred to as a "transcritical bifurcation."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The Denver facility managers chose ‘transcritical’ CO2, which can behave simultaneously as a liquid and a gas — an increasingly popular option for efficient commercial refrigeration.
Freezer holding world’s biggest ancient-ice archive to get ‘future-proofed’ Nicola Jones 2024
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