Tuesday word: Criterion
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1word1dayTuesday, July 20, 2021
Criterion (noun)
cri·te·ri·on [krahy-teer-ee-uhn]; plural cri·te·ri·a [-teer-ee-uh]
noun
a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something.
OTHER WORDS FROM CRITERION
cri·te·ri·al, adjective
WORDS RELATED TO CRITERION
touchstone, benchmark, principle, yardstick, precedent, norm, proof, foundation, scale, basis, pattern, original, canon, rule, standard, prototype, exemplar, measure, opinion, model
See synonyms for: criterion / criteria on Thesaurus.com
SYNONYMS
measure, touchstone, yardstick. See standard.
SYNONYM STUDY FOR CRITERION
See standard.
USAGE NOTE FOR CRITERION
Like some other nouns borrowed from the Greek, criterion has both a Greek plural, criteria, and a plural formed on the English pattern, criterions. The plural in -a occurs with far greater frequency than does the -s plural: These are the criteria for the selection of candidates. Although criteria is sometimes used as a singular, most often in speech and rather infrequently in edited prose, it continues strongly in use as a plural in standard English, with criterion as the singular.
Origin: First recorded in 1605–15; from Greek krit?rion “a standard,” equivalent to kri- variant stem of kri´nein “to separate, decide” + -terion neuter suffix of means (akin to Latin -torium -tory)
HOW TO USE CRITERION IN A SENTENCE
Not only that, he drew a polygon with the fewest possible sides that met these criteria.
CAN YOU CROSS LIKE A BOSS?|ZACH WISSNER-GROSS|FEBRUARY 12, 2021|FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
Employees who meet certain eligibility criteria could receive as much as 600 hours — 15 work weeks — of extra leave time to be paid from a $570 million fund that the bill would create.
FEDERAL WORKERS COULD GET MORE PAID LEAVE IF COVID-19 PREVENTS THEM FROM WORKING|ERIC YODER|FEBRUARY 10, 2021|WASHINGTON POST
Those criteria are the product of decades of field studies, through which scientists have amassed a vast reference dataset of fossil structures, against which researchers can compare and evaluate any new discoveries.
FOSSIL MIMICS MAY BE MORE COMMON IN ANCIENT ROCKS THAN ACTUAL FOSSILS|CAROLYN GRAMLING|FEBRUARY 9, 2021|SCIENCE NEWS
Data can help point us to places where policing practices look the most problematic by these criteria.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS WITH THE BIGGEST RACIAL DISPARITIES IN ARRESTS AND KILLINGS|SAMUEL SINYANGWE|FEBRUARY 4, 2021|FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
Criterion (noun)
cri·te·ri·on [krahy-teer-ee-uhn]; plural cri·te·ri·a [-teer-ee-uh]
noun
a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something.
OTHER WORDS FROM CRITERION
cri·te·ri·al, adjective
WORDS RELATED TO CRITERION
touchstone, benchmark, principle, yardstick, precedent, norm, proof, foundation, scale, basis, pattern, original, canon, rule, standard, prototype, exemplar, measure, opinion, model
See synonyms for: criterion / criteria on Thesaurus.com
SYNONYMS
measure, touchstone, yardstick. See standard.
SYNONYM STUDY FOR CRITERION
See standard.
USAGE NOTE FOR CRITERION
Like some other nouns borrowed from the Greek, criterion has both a Greek plural, criteria, and a plural formed on the English pattern, criterions. The plural in -a occurs with far greater frequency than does the -s plural: These are the criteria for the selection of candidates. Although criteria is sometimes used as a singular, most often in speech and rather infrequently in edited prose, it continues strongly in use as a plural in standard English, with criterion as the singular.
Origin: First recorded in 1605–15; from Greek krit?rion “a standard,” equivalent to kri- variant stem of kri´nein “to separate, decide” + -terion neuter suffix of means (akin to Latin -torium -tory)
HOW TO USE CRITERION IN A SENTENCE
Not only that, he drew a polygon with the fewest possible sides that met these criteria.
CAN YOU CROSS LIKE A BOSS?|ZACH WISSNER-GROSS|FEBRUARY 12, 2021|FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
Employees who meet certain eligibility criteria could receive as much as 600 hours — 15 work weeks — of extra leave time to be paid from a $570 million fund that the bill would create.
FEDERAL WORKERS COULD GET MORE PAID LEAVE IF COVID-19 PREVENTS THEM FROM WORKING|ERIC YODER|FEBRUARY 10, 2021|WASHINGTON POST
Those criteria are the product of decades of field studies, through which scientists have amassed a vast reference dataset of fossil structures, against which researchers can compare and evaluate any new discoveries.
FOSSIL MIMICS MAY BE MORE COMMON IN ANCIENT ROCKS THAN ACTUAL FOSSILS|CAROLYN GRAMLING|FEBRUARY 9, 2021|SCIENCE NEWS
Data can help point us to places where policing practices look the most problematic by these criteria.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS WITH THE BIGGEST RACIAL DISPARITIES IN ARRESTS AND KILLINGS|SAMUEL SINYANGWE|FEBRUARY 4, 2021|FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
