Criterion

Definition: Criterion

Criterion

Noun

1. A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "they set the measure for all subsequent work".

2. The ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their community".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "criterion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Education

Health

Literature

Mathematics

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Synonyms: Criterion

Evidence

Indication; criterion; (test).

Experiment

Verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, (demonstration); criterion, diagnostic, test, probe, crucial test, acid test, litmus test.

Indication

Badge, criterion; countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop; dib; totem; tessera, card, bill; witness, voucher; stamp; cacher; trade mark, Hall mark.

Crosswords: Criterion

References

• Criterion Properties Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers to Feminism (reference)

• Criterion Goes to the Movies C/Win/Us/Rental (reference)

• CRITERION PROPERTIES PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Rating College Teaching: Criterion Validity Studies of Student Evaluation-Of-Instruction Instruments (reference)

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Periodicals

• Criterion (reference)

• Literary Criterion (reference)

• New Criterion (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Akira Kurosawa - 4 Samurai Classics (Seven Samurai / The Hidden Fortress / Yojimbo / Sanjuro) - Criterion Collection (reference)

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Music

• Criterion Music Box (reference)

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New York City views. Times Square, Bond Clothes, and Loew's Criterion. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It is the essential criterion of appellate jurisdiction, that it revises and corrects the proceedings in a cause already instituted, and does not create that cause. (reference)

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Health

For many forms of incontinence, behavioral techniques meet this criterion. (references)

The existence of controversy is a major criterion for determining the need to conduct an NIH consensus development conference. (references)

Some practitioners invalidly use response to medication as a diagnostic criterion, and primary care practitioners are less likely to recognize comorbid (coexisting) disorders. (references)

Business

Local support is not currently a major purchasing criterion as companies must import the state-of-the-art equipment to meet rising consumer demand. (references)

More hospitals are setting up formularies (usually beginning with antibiotics) and price tends to the main criterion for selection of drugs to be listed there. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

Joint ventures that meet the first criterion and whose projects are included in the National Investment Program receive a seven-year tax holiday. (references)

Netherlands

Sharply falling unemployment, a major criterion for Brussels approval of national investment subsidies, is likely to reduce the significance of the IPR as an investment-stimulating instrument over time. (references)

Zimbabwe

Accordingly, it notes that the GOZ prefers majority Zimbabwean participation in new investment projects and specifies that the degree of local ownership will be a prime criterion in the evaluation of investment proposals. (references)

Minorities

Israel and the occupied territories

In civic areas where religion is a determining criterion, such as the religious courts and centers of education, non-Jewish institutions routinely receive less state support than their Jewish counterparts. (references)

Political Economy

JAMAICA

The main criterion is the credit-worthiness of the company. (references)

NETHERLANDS

Since the early 1980s, gross public sector debt (EMU criterion) has grown sharply, to 81.2 percent of GDP. Starting in 1993, the Dutch fiscal balance has drastically improved. (references)

Trade

Slovak Rep

The criterion for determining these customs duties is the declaration of the origin of goods. (references)

Haiti

Eligible articles assembled or processed from U.S. materials, components or ingredients are accorded duty free access into the U.S. regardless of whether such articles satisfy the 35% value added criterion. (references)

Barbados

As a member of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), Barbados may export manufactured products free of customs duties to the markets of the other CARICOM states if the products are wholly-produced in Barbados and meet a minimum value-added criterion or a change in customs classification. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "criterion": Cochran's criterion ♦ criterion variable ♦ empirical criterion ♦ head performance criterion ♦ Helmert criterion ♦ Lawson criterion. Additional references.

Beginning with "criterion": criterion-basis, criterion-referenced, criterion-referencing.

Ending with "criterion": lambda-criterion, multiple-criterion.

Albanian

kriter (Canon, metewand, standard, test, touchstone). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فيصل, ‏مقياس (gauge, standard), ‏محك (yardstick), ‏معيار (gauge, norm, standard), ‏ضابط معيار. (various references)

Bulgarian 

критерий (gauge, hallmark, measure, metewand, plumb line, standard, test, yardstick). (various references)

Chinese 

軌范 (standard), 標準 (norm, standard), � �准 (canonical, Criteria, Criterions, standard). (various references)

Czech

kritérium. (various references)

Danish

kriterium. (various references)

Dutch

criterium. (various references)

Farsi 

میزان (Adjustment, Balance, Measure, Meter, Remedy, Rhythm, Scale, Unit, Yardstick), ملاک (Document, Evidence, Landlord, Landowner, Lord, Proprietor), مقیاس (Gauge, Indicator, Measure, Meter, Scale, Yardstick), محک (Acid, Examination, Proof, Shibboleth, Test), معیار (Canonical, Gauge, Paragon, Scale, Standard, Test, Touchstone, Yardstick), نشان قطعی , ضابطه (Topic). (various references)

Finnish

kriteeri (criter|ion). (various references)

French

critère. (various references)

German

kriterium (circuit race, test). (various references)

Greek 

κριτήριο (test). (various references)

Hebrew 

קריטריון, ק� �" מ�"�" (measure, measuring rod, scale, standard), אמת מ�"�" (scale, standard, yardstick), אבן בוחן (teststone, touchstone). (various references)

Hungarian

kritérium (criteria). (various references)

Indonesian

ukuran standard. (various references)

Italian

criterio (check, common sense, principle, rule, scale, standard, yardstick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

規範 (example, model, norm, pattern, standard). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きじく (axis, axle, contrivance, key, plan, standard, yardstick), きは�" (bond, connection, example, fetters, model, norm, pattern, returning sailboat, setting sail for home port, shackles, standard), めやす (aim). (various references)

Korean 

표준 (Criteria, Criterions, standard). (various references)

Manx

slat howse (yardstick). (various references)

Pig Latin

iterioncray

Portuguese

critério (cannion, canon, discretion, gage, gauge, standard, touchstone). (various references)

Romanian

criteriu. (various references)

Russian 

критерий (criteria, figure of merit, gauge, mete-wand, norm, plumb-line, test, touchstone, yardstick). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

merilo (gauge, measure, norm, value, yardstick), kriterijum (norm, yardstick). (various references)

Spanish

criterio (Canon, judgement, judgment, metewand, standard, test, view, yardstick). (various references)

Swedish

kriterium (criteria, touchstone). (various references)

Turkish

kriter (Canon, gauge, test), kıstas (gauge), ayırıcı özellik (accent, hallmark, plate-mark), ölçüt (standard). (various references)

Ukrainian

критерій (hallmark, metewand, norm, rule, touchstone, yardstick), мірило (metewand, test). (various references)

Welsh

safon (standard). (various references)

kriterion. (various references)

probatio, probatione, probationem, reprobatio. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "criterion": criterions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Criterion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chitarroni, citerion, crieterion, criteion, criteriaon, criterio, criteriopn, critierion, critieron, Crotamiton, crtierion. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: interior, tricorne.

-2 letters: citrine, cointer, cornier, crinite, inciter, neritic, noritic, noticer, oneiric, tricorn.

-3 letters: citrin, citron, coiner, corner, cornet, corrie, cortin, cretin, erotic, incite, irenic, ironer, ironic, nitric, noetic, norite, notice, orcein, orient, orrice, recoin, rector, retorn, rioter, tinier, tonier.

-4 letters: cento, cirri, citer, conte, corer, crier, crone, crore, icier, inert, inter, intro, ionic.

+1 letter: criterions.

+2 letters: cointerring, doctrinaire, incinerator, interdictor, redirection, restriction, rhetorician.

+3 letters: contrariwise, doctrinaires, incinerators, incorporeity, insurrection, interdictors, interdictory, practitioner, prescription, redirections, restrictions, retrodicting, retrodiction, rhetoricians.

+4 letters: acrylonitrile, anticorrosive, bromocriptine, contrarieties, counterfiring, craniometries, discretionary, incarceration, incorporative, incorruptible, insurrections, intercortical, intercropping, intercrossing, intertropical, mercerization, micronutrient, nitroglycerin, overdirecting, practitioners, prescriptions, prevarication, proventriculi, reactionaries, recalibration, reciprocating, reciprocation, recirculation, reconnoitring, recreationist, recrimination, recriminatory, redescription, reincarnation, reintroducing, relubrication, retrodictions, trigonometric, undoctrinaire.