| rejection | the act of rejecting something, his proposals were met with rejection |
| critical mass | the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction |
| critical mass | the minimum amount (of something) required to start or maintain a venture, the battle for the computer market has now reached critical mass, there is now a critical mass of successful women to take the lead, they sold the business because it lacked critical mass |
area
region | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve, in the abdominal region |
cortical area
cortical region | any of various regions of the cerebral cortex |
motor area
motor region
motor cortex
Rolando's area
excitable area | the cortical area that influences motor movements |
sensorimotor area
sensorimotor region | an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions |
pubes
pubic region
loins | the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs |
Hell Hades
infernal region netherworld
Scheol
underworld | (religion) the world of the dead, No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth-Theognis |
Hell
perdition
Inferno infernal region
nether region
pit | (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil, where sinners suffer eternal punishment, Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell- John Milton, a demon from the depths of the pit, Hell is paved with good intentions-Dr. Johnson |
hellfire
red region | a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned |
incredulity
disbelief
skepticism
mental rejection | doubt about the truth of something |
critical appraisal
critical analysis | an appraisal based on careful analytical evaluation |
region
realm | a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about, it was a limited realm of discourse, here we enter the region of opinion, the realm of the occult |
review critique
critical review
review article | an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) |
| rejection | the speech act of rejecting |
Frigid Zone
polar zone
polar region | the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole, characterized by frigid climate |
geographical area
geographic area
geographical region
geographic region | a demarcated area of the Earth |
| biogeographical region | an area of the Earth determined by distribution of flora and fauna |
D-layer
D region | the lowest region of the ionosphere ( tomiles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves |
Appleton layer
F layer
F region | the highest region of the ionosphere (fromto miles up) which contains the highest concentration of free electrons and is most useful for longange radio transmission |
Heaviside layer
Kennelly-Heaviside layer
E layer
E region | a region of the ionosphere (fromtomiles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length |
region
part | the extended spatial location of something, the farming regions of France, religions in all parts of the world, regions of outer space |
| region | a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth, penguins inhabit the polar regions |
unknown
unknown region
terra incognita | an unknown and unexplored region, they came like angels out the unknown |
Xinjiang
Sinkiang
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region | an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan, the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people |
| Italian region | Italy is divided intoregions for administrative purposes |
| Lothian Region | a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh |
| French region | a geographical subdivision of France |
Tidewater
Tidewater region | the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia |
Bluegrass
Bluegrass Country
Bluegrass Region | an area in central Kentucky noted for it bluegrass and thoroughbred horses |
| rejection | (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign, rejection of the transplanted liver |
region
neighborhood | the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'), it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job, the price is in the neighborhood of $ |
| critical angle | the smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected |
| rejection | the state of being rejected |
juncture
critical point
crossroads | a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made, at that juncture he had no idea what to do, he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point |
| critical | marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws, a critical attitude |
| critical | characterized by careful evaluation and judgment, a critical reading, a critical dissertation, a critical analysis of Melville's writings |
| critical | being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency, a critical shortage of food, a critical illness, an illness at the critical stage |
| critical | at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction, a critical temperature of water idegrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure, critical mass, go critical |
critical
decisive | forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis, a critical point in the campaign, the critical test |
critical
vital | urgently needed, absolutely necessary, a critical element of the plan, critical medical supplies, vital for a healthy society, of vital interest |
| critical | of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism, critical acclaim |