"Climacteric" is a word in ENGLISH
A period in human life in which some great change is
supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are
thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd
numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.
Relating to a climacteric; critical.
Any critical period.
Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.
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