How do you define the severity (critical/high/low etc) of bugs?

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Assuming you are involved in evaluation of bugs in your organization, how do you define the different levels of severity of these bugs?

More specifically - What are the different values do you use for "Severiy"? What are the criteria that you use to assign the values to the bugs?

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