A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point. / An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.

All replication crises, in all scientific fields or specialties, viewed collectively as a unitary, single epistemic crisis.

(sociology) A singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well-being of a community or large group of people.

(computing, dated) The difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time, due to the rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of problems.

plural of crisis line

plural of crisis hotline

A telephone number people can call to get immediate emergency telephone counseling.

Synonym of crisis hotline

(informal) A situation in which the legislative and the executive in a presidential system deadlock and are unable to pass a budget.

A crisis in which the normal competition between epistemic regimes or components thereof crescendoes to the extent that peoples, nations, or other human groups either lose their sense that they share perceptions of common reality or pretend to lose it for purposes of tactical or strategic feint in a power struggle.