criterion
nounUK /kɹaɪˈtɪə.ɹi.ən/ · US /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/
Etymology From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion, “a test, a means of judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”); see critic.
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A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.
- Near-synonym: benchmark
- criterion of choice, of decision, of selection
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- Knowledge has come to her too soon—knowledge of evil, unqualified by the general charities which longer experience infallibly brings; but her age has lent its own freshness to this first great emotion; it becomes unconsciously a criterion, and the judgment is harsh, because the remembrance is bitter.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 310:
- The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories, Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:
- Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:
- Derived terms
27 terms
Akaike information criterion, bicriterion, Bradford Hill criteria, Bradford Hill criterion, Conway criterion, criteriology, criterionless, criterion of embarrassment, criterion of verifiability, criterion of verification, Euler's criterion, Feighner criterion, Hill criterion, Kaldor-Hicks criterion, Kelly criterion, Lawson comfort criterion, Lawson criterion, Li's criterion, metacriterion, multicriterion, noncriterion, Sparrow criterion, subcriterion, Sylvester's criterion, tricriterion, verifiability criterion, verification criterion