critical threshold

Language: en

📖 Definitions

  1. A specific point or limit at which a significant change, shift, or irreversible effect occurs in a system, process, or phenomenon.; The minimum level of intensity, quantity, or severity required to trigger a particular response, reaction, or state.; In ecology and environmental science, a tipping point beyond which an ecosystem undergoes rapid and often permanent degradation or transformation.

💬 Examples

  1. It asserts that exceeding the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius in global temperature rise is now an inevitable reality.

  2. Engineers monitored the pressure levels closely to ensure they did not cross the critical threshold for structural integrity.

  3. Scientists warn that melting permafrost could release enough methane to push the climate system past a critical threshold.