CRITERION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: criteria

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ideal in terms of which something can be judged

Example:

they live by the standards of their community

Synonyms:

criterion; standard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Example:

they set the measure for all subsequent work

Synonyms:

criterion; measure; standard; touchstone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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)

Credits

Context examples:

This lesion morphologically overlaps with the focal atypical hyperplasias but morphological criteria to distinguish between the AH and DCIS does not currently exist

(Carcinoma In Situ of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A lesion characterized by the absence of clinical and/or morphologic criteria that are suggestive of melanoma.

(Non-Melanomatous Lesion, NCI Thesaurus)

There are no reliable morphologic criteria to distinguish between benign and malignant paragangliomas.

(Paraganglioma, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition to the above listed criteria, a 50% or more reduction in the size of soft tissue plasmacytomas is also required, if present at baseline.

(Partial Response of Multiple Myeloma or Plasma Cell Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

A 9-item scale using each of the 9 DSM-IV criteria with self-reported frequency of "0" (not at all) to "3" (nearly every day).

(Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 Item, NCI Thesaurus)

The number of reviewers, the reviewing procedures and criteria, and the use made of the reviewers' opinions may vary, and therefore each reviewing organization/committee has to publicly disclose its policies.

(Peer-reviewed Scientific Project, NCI Thesaurus)

Electrocardiographic criteria used for the diagnosis of right atrial abnormality may include a peaked p wave greater than 2.5 millimeters in amplitude in the inferior leads.

(P-pulmonale by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

Indicates that an individual fails to meet the criteria for a particular study.

(Not Meeting Criteria, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of changes in the ST segment and T wave that do not meet criteria for ischemia or infarction.

(Non-Specific ST-T Changes by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

An indication that there is no device or component that matches the criteria.