(insurance) Insurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on the diagnosis of a serious (life-threatening) illness in the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on death or healthy survival to the end of the term.

A Kantian approach to philosophy, in which the primary purpose is not to establish and demonstrate theories about reality, but rather to subject all theories to critical review.

A person who makes criticisms on a subject they have little knowledge of or practical experience in.

plural of critical hit

(video games, role-playing games) A successful attack that deals more damage than a normal blow.

plural of critical temperature

plural of critical section

plural of critical point

(programming) A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.

Capable of criticizing oneself; able to find mistakes and possibilities for improvement in one's own work.