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criteria
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Criterion \Cri*te"ri*on\ (kr?-t?"r?-?n), n.; pl. Criteria (-?), sometimes Criterions (-?nz). [Gr. ????? a means for judging, fr. ???? decider, judge, fr. ????? to separate. See Certain.] A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them.
Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion.
--Donne.
Inferences founded on such enduring criteria.
--Sir G.
C. Lewis.
Syn: Standard; measure; rule.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, plural of criterion (q.v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of criterion English) 2 (context nonstandard proscribed English) A single criterion.
WordNet
See criterion
n. a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "they set the measure for all subsequent work" [syn: standard, measure, touchstone]
the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their community" [syn: standard]
[also: criteria (pl)]
Wikipedia
Criteria is an indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, formed in 2003 when ex- Cursive founding member Steve Pedersen returned to his hometown after graduating from the Duke University School of Law. He spent six months in a friend's basement where he wrote all ten songs for his new project's debut album. He recruited the help of some old friends, A.J. Mogis (of Presto! Recording Studios and Lullaby for the Working Class) on bass guitar, Aaron Druery on guitar, and Mike Sweeney of Beep Beep on drums. Their first album, En Garde, was released on his previous band's label, Initial Records.
Steve Pedersen eventually got a day job as a lawyer, making it hard for the band to go on tour to promote their new album. Initial Records went bankrupt about a year after, leaving Criteria without a label. Saddle Creek Records took their longtime friend in and put out three releases in 2005. The first was a re-release of the overlooked and underrated En Garde, their new single, "Prevent the World," and their second full-length, When We Break. After being moved into Saddle Creek, Pedersen quit his day job to spend full-time making music and touring.
Criteria has performed with bands such as Cursive, The Fall of Troy, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Statistics, Poison the Well, Rahim (band), and Minus the Bear.
The band performed at the Maha Musical Festival on August 17, 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska. Criteria's most recent performance took place on December 12, 2013 at the Waiting Room Lounge in Omaha, during which Pedersen mentioned the band was working on a new album.
Usage examples of "criteria".
It is in this sense that the free market is not ruled by the intellectual criteria of the majority, which prevail only at and for any given moment.
Only businessmen—the producers, the providers, the supporters, the Atlases who carry our whole economy on their shoulders—are regarded as guilty by nature and are required to prove their innocence, without any definable criteria of innocence or proof, and are left at the mercy of the whim, the favor, or the malice of any publicity-seeking politician, any scheming statist, any envious mediocrity who might chance to work his way into a bureaucratic job and who feels a yen to do some trust-busting.
Cooley used in allocating these quotas"—but that it has never been and never can be too clear what criteria he was expected to use by the legislation that granted him these powers.
They poured abuse on a few specific groups and would not disclose the criteria by which these groups had been chosen.
The consequence, today, is a chaos of subjective whims setting the criteria of logic, of communication, demonstration, evidence, proof, which differ from class to class, from teacher to teacher.
These elite colleges traditionally applied geographical criteria to applicants, deliberately favoring boys from homes located far from their campuses, in the hopes of assembling a highly diversified student body.
At the level of slang, the turnover rate is so rapid that it has forced dictionary makers to change their criteria for word inclusion.
It does this by imposing order, a set of principles or criteria on the choices he makes in his daily life.
He remains constantly in a posture of non-commitment, and without strong commitment to the values and styles of some group he lacks the explicit set of criteria that he needs to pick his way through the burgeoning jungle of overchoice.
The immediate criteria on which the decision is based are relatively simple and clear-cut, and because all the circumstances are familiar, he scarcely has to think about it.
Today we need far more sophisticated criteria for choosing among technologies.
We need such policy criteria not only to stave off avoidable disasters, but to help us discover tomorrow's opportunities.
The haphazard way in which this is done today, however, and the criteria on which selection is based, need to be changed.
Necessity, therefore, and strict universality are safe criteria of knowledge a priori, and are inseparable one from the other.
As, however, in the use of these criteria, it is sometimes easier to show the contingency than the empirical limitation8 of judgments, and as it is sometimes more convincing to prove the unlimited universality which we attribute to a judgment than its necessity, it is advisable to use both criteria separately, each being by itself infallible.