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criterion en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kɹɪˈtɪəɹi.ən/
• /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/ (General-American)
• /kɹaɪˈtɪə.ɹi.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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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.

Meanings

1. A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • Near-synonym: benchmark
   • criterion of choice, of decision, of selection

Forms

Deriveds

subcriterion · Hill criterion · Akaike information criterion · noncriterion · Kelly criterion · criterion of verification · tricriterion · Bradford Hill criterion · Lawson criterion · verification criterion · Feighner criterion · Li's criterion · metacriterion · multicriterion · criterion of verifiability · verifiability criterion · bicriterion · criterion of embarrassment · Lawson comfort criterion · Kaldor-Hicks criterion · Euler's criterion · criteriology · Sparrow criterion · Sylvester's criterion · Bradford Hill criteria · criterionless · Conway criterion

Relateds

critical · criterial · critic · criticize · crisis

Synonyms

benchmark

Translations (96)

fa-ira مِعْیار (standard for comparison and judgment) · vi tiêu chuẩn (standard for comparison and judgment) · sh критеријум (standard for comparison and judgment) · he קרִיטֶרִיוֹן (standard for comparison and judgment) · ckb کریتێر (standard for comparison and judgment) · id kriteria (standard for comparison and judgment) · uz meʼyor (standard for comparison and judgment) · eo kriterio (standard for comparison and judgment) · tr kriter (standard for comparison and judgment) · is greinimark (standard for comparison and judgment) · kmr pîvan (standard for comparison and judgment) · ka კრიტერიუმი (standard for comparison and judgment) · gd slat-tomhais (standard for comparison and judgment) · ru крите́рий (standard for comparison and judgment) · sk kritérium (standard for comparison and judgment) · ru мери́ло (standard for comparison and judgment) · pl kryterium (standard for comparison and judgment) · az kriteri (standard for comparison and judgment) · sh mȅrilo (standard for comparison and judgment) · nb kriterium (standard for comparison and judgment) · es criteriómetro (foundationless) (standard for comparison and judgment) · prs مِعْیَار (standard for comparison and judgment) · ast criteriu (standard for comparison and judgment) · uk крите́рій (standard for comparison and judgment) · el κριτήριο (standard for comparison and judgment) · ko 표준 (standard for comparison and judgment) · nl criterium (standard for comparison and judgment) · hu szempont (standard for comparison and judgment) · az mizan (standard for comparison and judgment) · hu ismérv (standard for comparison and judgment) · cmn 準則 /准则 (standard for comparison and judgment) · it criterio (standard for comparison and judgment) · ja 基準 (standard for comparison and judgment) · ml മാനദണ്ഡം (standard for comparison and judgment) · ckb میزان (standard for comparison and judgment) · az meyar (standard for comparison and judgment) · et kriteerium (standard for comparison and judgment) · cs kriterium (standard for comparison and judgment) · ug ئۆلچەم (standard for comparison and judgment) · kmr krîter (standard for comparison and judgment) · uz mezon (standard for comparison and judgment) · cy maen prawf (standard for comparison and judgment) · mk критериум (standard for comparison and judgment) · es criterio (standard for comparison and judgment) · sv kriterium (standard for comparison and judgment) · sl kriterij (standard for comparison and judgment) · be крытэ́рый (standard for comparison and judgment) · lv kritērijs (standard for comparison and judgment) · hy չափանիշ (standard for comparison and judgment) · sh mjȅrilo (standard for comparison and judgment) · ur مِعْیار (standard for comparison and judgment) · mn шалгуур (standard for comparison and judgment) · ps معيار (standard for comparison and judgment) · sh kriterijum (standard for comparison and judgment) · ota معیار (standard for comparison and judgment) · sq kriter (standard for comparison and judgment) · de Kriterium (standard for comparison and judgment) · be ме́рка (standard for comparison and judgment) · ca criteri (standard for comparison and judgment) · ja 判断基準 (standard for comparison and judgment) · da kriterium (standard for comparison and judgment) · mi paearu (standard for comparison and judgment) · id kriterium (standard for comparison and judgment) · cs kritérium (standard for comparison and judgment) · hi मापदंड (standard for comparison and judgment) · pt critério (standard for comparison and judgment) · hu kritérium (standard for comparison and judgment) · tr kıstas (standard for comparison and judgment) · fi kriteeri (standard for comparison and judgment) · fa-ira سَنْجِه (standard for comparison and judgment) · bg мери́ло (standard for comparison and judgment) · kk өлшем (standard for comparison and judgment) · fr critère (standard for comparison and judgment) · ro criteriu (standard for comparison and judgment) · grc κριτήριον (standard for comparison and judgment) · tl panuntunan (standard for comparison and judgment) · cmn 尺度 (standard for comparison and judgment) · cmn 軌範 /轨范 (standard for comparison and judgment) · sh ме̏рило (standard for comparison and judgment) · uk міри́ло (standard for comparison and judgment) · lt kriterijus (standard for comparison and judgment) · prs سَنْجَه (standard for comparison and judgment) · bg крите́рий (standard for comparison and judgment) · sl merilo (standard for comparison and judgment) · hi मानदंड (standard for comparison and judgment) · sw kigezo (standard for comparison and judgment) · tr ölçüt (standard for comparison and judgment) · ckb پێوەر (standard for comparison and judgment) · tg меъёр (standard for comparison and judgment) · ky критерий (standard for comparison and judgment) · ar مِعْيَار (standard for comparison and judgment) · kk өлшемшарт (standard for comparison and judgment) · uz kriteriy (standard for comparison and judgment) · cmn 標準 /标准 (standard for comparison and judgment) · be ме́рыва (standard for comparison and judgment) · sh мје̏рило (standard for comparison and judgment)