specialize - devote oneself to a special area of work; She specializes in honey bees; This baker specializes in French bread specialise work - exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; I will work hard to improve my grades; she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor
Critical Value in Statistics. In statistics, the critical value corresponds to a given significance level. This cutoff value determines the boundary between the two samples, on the basis of which it is determined, whether null hypothesis should be accepted or rejected.
Princeton's WordNet(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition: 1  critical(adj) marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws. a critical attitude. 2  critical(adj) at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction.