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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.
Pronunciation
Noun
criterion (plural criteria or (rare) criterions)
- 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
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 310:
- 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.
- 1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories, Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:
- 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.
- 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:
- 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?
Usage notes
- The plural form criterions also exists, but is much less common.
- The form criteria is sometimes used as a nonstandard singular form (as in a criteria, this criteria, and so on), with corresponding plural form criterias. In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”.
Derived terms
- Akaike information criterion
- bicriterion
- Bradford Hill criteria
- Conway criterion
- criteriology
- criterionless
- criterion of embarrassment
- criterion of verifiability
- criterion of verification
- Euler's criterion
- Feighner 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
Related terms
Translations
standard for comparison and judgment
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Further reading
criterion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “criterion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “criterion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [krɪˈtɛ.ri.ɔn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kriˈtɛː.ri.on]
Noun
criterion n (genitive criteriī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
Descendants
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