cri·te·ri·on

Date: 1600-1700; Language: Greek; Origin: kriterion, from krinein 'to judge, decide'

Criterion, or its plural form criteria, may refer to:

• Criterion Stakes, a horse race in Newmarket, England
• Criterion Summit, a mountain pass in Oregon, United States
• Criteria air contaminants, air pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards
• Criterion validity, in psychometrics, a measure of how well one variable or set of variables predicts an outcome
• Criterion-referenced test, translates a test score into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person
• Eisenstein's criterion, in mathematics, gives sufficient conditions for a polynomial to be irreducible over the rational numbers
• Euler's criterion, in number theory concerning primes
• Problem of the criterion, in epistemology, an issue regarding the starting point of knowledge
• Weyl's criterion, used in mathematics in the theory of diophantine approximation
• The New Criterion, a New York-based monthly literary magazine founded in 1982
• Criteria CaixaCorp, an investment holding company.
• Criterium, bicycle race
• Surat Al-Furqan (The Criterion, The Standard) is the 25th sura of the Qur'an

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