criterion
/kɹɪˈtɪəɹi.ən/UK/kɹaɪˈtɪə.ɹi.ən/
criterion noun: a standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.
Noun
criterion (plural criteria or (rare) criterions)
- A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.
- Near-synonym: benchmark
- criterion of choice, of decision, of selection
- Synonyms:
- benchmark
criterion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
criterion in Hindi
- standard for comparison and judgment
- मानदंड māndaṇḍ, मापदंड māpdaṇḍ
criterion in Tamil
- முடிவளவை, ஒப்பளவை, அளவை, வரைவளவு, வரையளவை, தேர்வளவை
criterion in Urdu
- standard for comparison and judgment
- مِعْیار mi'yār
criterion in Bengali
- নির্ণায়ক, মানদণ্ড, অনুমাপক
More languagesFewer languages
- criterion in Malayalam
- മാനദണ്ഡം mānadaṇḍaṁ
- criterion in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಮಾಣ, ಒರೆಗಲ್ಲು, ಮಾನದಂಡ, ನಿರ್ಣಾಯಕ ಅಂಶ
- criterion in Punjabi
- ਨਿਯਮ niyam
- criterion in Pashto
- معيار me'yār
- criterion in Tagalog
- panuntunan
- criterion in Arabic
- مِعْيَار miʕyār
- criterion in Indonesian
- kriteria, kriterium
- criterion in Vietnamese
- tiêu chuẩn
Examples of criterion in a sentence
- The criteria governing the choice of candidate were heavily weighted in his favor.
- Unfortunately, you don't fulfill the criteria for extra grants at the present time.
- The property meets the criteria prescribed by the regulations.
Synonyms of criterion
Forms of criterion
| plural | criteria |
|---|---|
| alternative form | criteria |
| alternative form | criterium |
| plural (rare) | criterions |
Origin of criterion
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.
Words formed from criterion
- 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
Words that rhyme with criterion
- Illyrian
- valerian
- cimmerian
- Hyperion
- Iberian
- Shakespearean
- Algerian
- Chaucerian
- eulerian
- Siberian
- Sumerian
- Liberian
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Questions about criterion
- What does criterion mean?
- Criterion means a standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.
- What is criterion in Hindi?
- Criterion in Hindi is मानदंड (māndaṇḍ), मापदंड (māpdaṇḍ). See Criterion meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is criterion?
- Criterion is a noun.
- How do you pronounce criterion?
- Criterion is pronounced /kɹɪˈtɪəɹi.ən/.
- What is the plural of criterion?
- The plural of criterion is criteria.
Words near criterion in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: criterion (page history and authors); criterion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); criterion (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); criterion (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਨਿਯਮ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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