CRUCIAL
\kɹˈuːʃə͡l], \kɹˈuːʃəl], \k_ɹ_ˈuː_ʃ_əl]\
Definitions of CRUCIAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"
By Princeton University
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having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
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Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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Testing, searching, from the practice of marking a testing instance with a cross to draw attention to it.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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From crux, crucis, a cross. Crucialis, Cruciatus. Having the shape of a cross. Appertaining to a cross.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Thomas Sheridan