subcritical
About 0.20 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of less than critical importance
- adjective Having a numerical value less than some critical value
- adjective Having insufficient mass to sustain a chain reaction
a subcritical reactor
Similar words
rusting noncritical subsignificant secondary noncrucial acritical non-critical subessential low-level subcatastrophic
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