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subcriticality

subcriticality

English

Noun

subcriticality (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being subcritical.
    • 2015 October 21, “Evaluating Subcriticality during the Ebola Epidemic in West Africa”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0140651:
      The epidemics in Liberia and Sierra Leone have approached subcriticality at some point during the epidemic; the epidemic in Guinea is ongoing with no evidence that it is subcritical.