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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
critical path
noun
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▪ Not dissimilar from the system known as critical path analysis, the approach envisaged should show a time-scale allocation against each task.
▪ Sophisticated software already exists at moderate cost to effectively undertake critical path analyses.
▪ The critical path through the network is the longest sequence of activities from the beginning of the network through to the end.
▪ The optimum linking of the various stages is called the critical path.
▪ The planning, however, is done on the Gantt chart with the critical path clearly shown by colour or shading.
▪ They can also be utilised in programming work including network analysis and critical path.
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critical path

n. (context operations English) The sequence of dependent steps that determine the minimum time needed to carry out an operation.

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Critical Path

Critical path may refer to:

  • The longest series of sequential operations in a parallel computation; see Analysis of parallel algorithms
  • Critical path method, an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities
  • Critical Path (book), by Buckminster Fuller
  • The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism, a 1971 book by Northrop Frye
  • Critical Path (video game), an interactive movie computer game
  • Critical Path, Inc., a provider of messaging services
  • Critical Path Institute, an organization for improvement of the drug development process
Critical Path (video game)

Critical Path is a post-apocalyptic interactive movie adventure video game developed by Mechadeus (now Mondo Media) and published by Media Vision Technology. Critical Path featured real time video which made it appear to be graphically superior to most games of its time. In actuality, the entire game was an interactive movie, where most choices would simply cause the game to progress or end.

Critical Path (book)

Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller with the assistance of Kiyoshi Kuromiya. First published in 1981, it is alongside Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth one of Fuller's best-known works. Vast in its scope, it describes Fuller's own vision of the development of human civilization, economic history, and his highly original economic ideology based, amongst other things, on his detailed description of why scarcity of resources need no longer be a decisive factor in global politics.

Usage examples of "critical path".

Schemata, critical path analyses, clinically plotted intersections from his side of the strategic planning.

They're unrolling everything to a hugely intricate plan generated by the backers' critical path team, and there isn't much room for idling: The expedition relies on shamelessly exploiting child labor –.

It takes an immeasurably short time to travel between stars: but as the line of travel, or tramline, exists only along one critical path between each pair of stars (never quite a straight line, but close enough to visualize it so) and the end points of the paths are far from the distortions in space caused by stars and large planetary masses, it follows that a ship spends most of its time crawling from one end point to another.

The ship was now on the critical path that would just graze the outer atmosphere.