See subcritical on Wiktionary
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"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "of less than critical importance",
"word": "ei kriittinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "having insufficient mass",
"word": "alikriittinen"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "dokritičeskij",
"sense": "having insufficient mass",
"word": "докритический"
}
],
"word": "subcritical"
}
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