The Collaborative International Dictionary
critical temperature \crit"ic*al tem"per*a*ture\ (Physics), A certain temperature, different for different gases, but always the same for each gas, regarded as the temperature above which no amount of pressure can produce condensation to a liquid; the temperature above which a gas cannot be liquified.
Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) The temperature at the critical point of a substance
Usage examples of "critical temperature".
Thus we want the critical temperature to be insensitive to the current through the sample.
The extra energy of the unbroken symmetry state would then be released and would reheat the universe to a temperature just below the critical temperature for symmetry between the forces.
Some of it is set off by a critical temperature, and is self-sustaining thereafter.
As the planet slowly cooled, its surface passed a critical temperature, the boiling point of water.
But there was no way to predict any individual weapon's behavior, other than to note that the highest critical temperature recorded was 790 degrees and the lowest was 420 degrees.
If it heats up past its critical temperature, the whole magnetic field will collapse and release enough energy to explode like a bomb.
Here, too, there were no seas, for the temperature was above the critical temperature of water, and only in the self-cooling bodies of these men and in the trees which similarly cooled themselves, could there be liquid.
And if it did, the launch crew should have been able to shut it down within seconds, before it reached critical temperature.