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Definition of Criterion

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.

Meaning of Criterion from wikipedia

- Look up criterion or criteria in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Criterion (pl.: criteria) may refer to: Criterion, Oregon, a historic unincorporated...
- The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing...
- The Criterion was a British literary magazine published from October 1922 to January 1939. The Criterion (or the Criterion) was, for most of its run, a...
- Criterion Games is a British video game developer based in Guildford. Founded in January 1996 as a division of Criterion Software, it was owned by Canon...
- The criterion of embarr****ment is a type of biblical historical analysis in which a historical account is deemed more likely to be true if the author...
- statistics, the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) or Schwarz information criterion (also SIC, SBC, SBIC) is a criterion for model selection among a finite...
- The Akaike information criterion (AIC) is an estimator of prediction error and thereby relative quality of statistical models for a given set of data...
- The Chirikov criterion or Chirikov resonance-overlap criterion was established by the Russian physicist Boris Chirikov. Back in 1959, he published a seminal...
- In continuum mechanics, the maximum distortion energy criterion (also von Mises yield criterion) states that yielding of a ductile material begins when...
- control theory, the Liénard–Chipart criterion is a stability criterion modified from the Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion, proposed in 1914 by French physicists...