The ideal in terms of which something can be judged

Usage examples of criterion.

We based our criteria for excellence on the ability at the Latin Theme, we abandoned all that with horror as outdated elitism, and we now do exactly the same thing, with algebraic formulae substituting for Ciceronian pedantries.

All the original restaurants in Wichita conformed to the architectural criteria that Ingram established in 1921: a whitewashed exterior, a crenellated tower, and the slogans painted on the wall.

Habituation and dishabituation, which thus fulfill the criteria for the definitions of learning given at the beginning of Chapter 6, can be regarded as very basic and simple forms of short-term memory, adaptive mechanisms which economize on unnecessary responses and hence help to avoid fatigue.

Although Esperanto is international in the narrow sense that it incorporates features of more than one national language, it in no way meets the criteria for a global language.

In addition, the federal government should require each state receiving federal emergency preparedness funds to provide an analysis based on the same criteria to justify the distribution of funds in that state.

Death is a cluster concept and requires several criteria in a lump, but irreversibility is the only absolute one.

Hence the criterion for the position of the loads which makes the moment at C greatest is this: one load must be at C, and the other loads must be distributed, so that the average loads per ft.

When an individual CD is evaluated in light of these criteria, it quickly becomes apparent whether his crossdressing is maladaptive or not.

The way I have phrased this criterion implies that we should begin by looking for the biochemical and cellular changes and then on this basis seek the neurophysiological ones, and that in some way the neurophysiology is a mere incidental product of the biochemical and structural changes.

This limit, called the Rayleigh criterion, is proportional to the wavelength of the light being focused divided by the lens aperture.

For this reason, a focus can be achieved that is independent of the aperture of the material and sharper than that predicted by the Rayleigh criterion.

Instead, he wavered, voting sometimes with the moderates and sometimes against them, according to an inner criterion that Sabian had yet to understand.

If the activation of Weathermaker was any criterion, he could expect the worst suffering while he slept, and the Coldlight Army invaded his dreams to extract the price for their favors.

In this sense, studying mutations is a bit like using inhibitors to block particular metabolic processes, and has both the strengths and weaknesses of such methods, discussed in the previous chapter and in Criterion Four.

The criteria by which we filter inputs are themselves learned during our own development.