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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
criterion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
satisfy a criterion
▪ These programmes permit students to enter higher education without satisfying all the admissions criteria.
strict criteria (=standards that are used for judging someone or making a decision about them)
▪ The supermarket’s suppliers must meet strict criteria.
the selection criteria (=the set of reasons used for choosing something)
▪ What are your selection criteria?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
important
▪ Though it no longer has the same resonance, it remains an important criterion.
▪ I regard the most important criterion as an improvement in the delivery of patient care by the hospital in question.
▪ I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student.
▪ Weber also saw ownership of wealth as an important criterion for distinguishing classes.
▪ Thomas made participation in chapel activities an important criterion for network strength.
main
▪ Some line experience appears a main criterion.
▪ The main criterion for subdivision of the detrital rocks is grain size, given as the diameter of the grain in millimeters.
▪ Intestinal metaplasia in four or more biopsy specimens was the main criterion for inclusion in the study.
▪ Therefore, the main criterion is value for money.
▪ The main criterion for an effective service must be that it is staffed by experienced professionals who are appropriately qualified.
▪ There will be no point telling speakers they are using prevaricate wrongly, because usage is the main criterion for meaning.
only
▪ To be sure, this is not the only criterion: the voices of other Christians may be very confused.
▪ The only criterion is that of mutual comprehension.
▪ Age was not the only criterion in his choice of parts.
sole
▪ Assertions that intention is the sole criterion of validity are few, suspect, and found only in post-classical texts.
▪ But many borrowers choose an appealing discount deal as the sole criterion when they take out a loan.
▪ A criterion of instant and obvious utility can not be the sole criterion for the inclusion of items in the school curriculum.
▪ Thus age should not be the sole criterion for withholding aggressive treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in older patients.
▪ The sole criterion is the market price of the land.
■ VERB
apply
▪ To apply the social efficiency criterion the government needs information on social costs and benefits.
▪ Success is not guaranteed by applying this criterion of selection.
fulfil
▪ How few human beings in the entire galaxy could fulfil that criterion!
▪ Whichever, both entries fulfil my third criterion.
meet
▪ Cascaded identical sections that meet this criterion are all identically loaded and, therefore, behave identically.
▪ Thus, most of the research they discuss does not even meet the criterion they chose for their review.
▪ Simplistic hierarchies do not meet this criterion.
▪ It would be better to fit a line which met some predetermined criterion.
▪ If a child is not able to meet this criterion, then the method is not appropriate.
satisfy
▪ Both Nash reversion and Abreu's simple penal codes are subgame perfect equilibrium strategies and so satisfy this criterion of credibility.
use
▪ The presence or absence of reflux symptoms was not used as a selection criterion for asthmatics.
▪ Wilson and Connerly also are mulling a ban on using race as a criterion in awarding financial aid, the sources said.
▪ It can occur when age is used as a criterion for redundancy or early retirement.
▪ Their hope was that the statement could be used as the principal criterion for selecting an appropriate organization structure.
▪ I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student.
▪ Other researchers use less strict criteria and claim to find competence where Piagetians, using their criterion, do not.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The company's criterion for success is high sales.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A criterion of reasonableness or rational basis is obviously a narrower standard of review.
▪ Both Nash reversion and Abreu's simple penal codes are subgame perfect equilibrium strategies and so satisfy this criterion of credibility.
▪ Other researchers use less strict criteria and claim to find competence where Piagetians, using their criterion, do not.
▪ The criterion is the number of years before the pre-tax cash receipts from the project pay back the capital invested.
▪ The main criterion for subdivision of the detrital rocks is grain size, given as the diameter of the grain in millimeters.
▪ The merit of the project in relation to each criterion is assessed in terms of the five classes, ranging from very good to very poor.
▪ Their utilitarian contribution to our welfare should not, in other words, be our criterion as to whether they survive or not.
▪ This difference of criterion as to the character of the conflict was reflected in the way power was handled on each side.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Criterion

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
criterion

1660s, from Latinized form of Greek kriterion "means for judging, standard," from krites "judge," from PIE root *krei- (see crisis). Used in English as a Greek word from 1610s.

Wiktionary
criterion

n. A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

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WordNet
criterion

  1. 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]

  2. the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their community" [syn: standard]

  3. [also: criteria (pl)]

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Wikipedia
Criterion

Criterion, or its plural form criteria may refer to:

  • Criteria air contaminants, air pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards
  • Criterion Stakes, a horse race in Newmarket, England
  • Criterion Wind Project, a wind farm in Maryland, United States
  • Criterion Place, a proposed skyscraper in West Yorkshire, England
  • Criterion Summit, a mountain pass in Oregon, United States
  • Criterion, Oregon, a historic unincorporated community in the United States
  • Criterion Restaurant, London

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.