English Explanatory Dictionary

criterion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.

Pronunciation

/kɹɪˈtɪəɹi.ən/ /kɹaɪˈtɪə.ɹi.ən/ /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/ en-us-criterion.ogg

Word forms

criterion criteria criterions criterium

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.

Synonyms

benchmark

Related words

criterial crisis critic criticize critical

Derived words

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
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