# critical mass

> a sufficient participation, in number of persons (or adopters of an innovation in a social system), that triggers a new behaviour, or where the rate of adoption becomes self-sustaining and creates further growth

**Wikidata**: [Q947987](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q947987)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/critical-mass-q947987


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)