CRITERION (criteria)

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Irregular inflected form: criteria   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does criterion mean? 

• CRITERION (noun)
  The noun CRITERION has 2 senses:

1. a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

2. the ideal in terms of which something can be judged

  Familiarity information: CRITERION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRITERION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

criterion; measure; standard; touchstone

Context example:

they set the measure for all subsequent work

Hypernyms ("criterion" is a kind of...):

metric; system of measurement (a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "criterion"):

benchmark (a standard by which something can be measured or judged)

earned run average; ERA ((baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched)

GPA; grade point average (a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted)

procrustean bed; procrustean rule; procrustean standard (a standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality)

yardstick (a measure or standard used for comparison)

medium of exchange; monetary system (anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region)

graduated table; ordered series; scale; scale of measurement (an ordered reference standard)

gauge; standard of measurement (accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared)

baseline (an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared)

norm (a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical)

Derivation:

criterial; criterional (serving as a basis for evaluation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ideal in terms of which something can be judged

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

criterion; standard

Context example:

they live by the standards of their community

Hypernyms ("criterion" is a kind of...):

ideal (the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "criterion"):

control; control condition (a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment)

design criteria (criteria that designers should meet in designing some system or device)

Derivation:

criterial (serving as a basis for evaluation)

 Context examples 

Size (in mm) or other criteria for extent of invasion are generally offered.

(Microinvasive Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A collection of criteria on which subjects are evaluated and that must be met by all study subjects.

(Category for Inclusion and or Exclusion, NCI Thesaurus)

Its presence does not indicate disease progession but precludes a determination of complete remission based on the modified overall immune related response criteria.

(Modified Overall Immune Related Response Criterion, New Non-Measurable Lesion, NCI Thesaurus)

Disorder is not a myeloid dysplasia [if a disorder satisfied criterion 1 for myeloid proliferation (non-reactive) but also fulfills criteria for myeloid dysplasia the diagnosis of myeloid dysplasia should be applied].

(Mouse Myeloid Proliferation, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), proposed in 1984 by the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders (NINCDS) and the Stroke-Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (ADRDA, now the Alzheimer's Association).

(NINCDS-ADRDA Criteria for Alzheimer's Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

This manifests as sensing of non-cardiac depolarization signals that did not meet arrhythmia detection criteria and do not elicit programmed tachyarrhythmia therapy.

(Cardiac Device Oversensing without Shock or Anti-Tachycardia Pacing, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

This manifests as sensing of non-cardiac depolarization signals that met arrhythmia detection criteria and elicited programmed tachyarrhythmia therapy.

(Cardiac Device Oversensing with Shock or Anti-Tachycardia Pacing, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Microorganisms that test with an MIC above or a zone measurement below the susceptible interpretive criteria are designated as nonsusceptible.

(Antimicrobial Nonsusceptibility Result, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This cell line meets the criteria for the use of human embryonic stem cells by federally funded researchers.

(BG01, NCI Thesaurus)

The TNM clinical and pathologic primary tumor classifications of breast cancer are the same, regardless of whether they are based on clinical and/or pathologic criteria.

(Breast Cancer Clinical Primary Tumor TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)