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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : krahy-teer-ee-uhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : kraɪˈtɪər i ən |
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Définition of criterion
Origin :- 1660s, from Latinized form of Greek kriterion "means for judging, standard," from krites "judge," from PIE root *krei- (see crisis). Used in English as a Greek word from 1610s.
- noun test, gauge for judgment
- And the criterion which he proposes is difference in the working of the faculties.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Why, because he distinguishes the face of a friend and of an enemy only by the criterion of knowing and not knowing.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- These will be the criterion of the comparative claims of pleasure and wisdom.
- Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato
- Art and morality agree in rejecting pleasure as the criterion of good.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- Education the criterion of the right of suffrage, not property.
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 » by Various
- They had crossed over to the pavement in front of the Criterion as she said this.
- Extract from : « The Missionary » by George Griffith
- This criterion is practically omnipresent in the world of affairs.
- Extract from : « Creating Capital » by Frederick L. Lipman
- Be that as it may, a criterion it was that could not deceive us as to the condition of Coleridge.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 » by Various
- How can it be otherwise, if immediate ability to pay is the criterion?
- Extract from : « Morals of Economic Internationalism » by John A. Hobson
- If that were the criterion, Rachel proved a prophet One and all did say ay.
- Extract from : « Clare Avery » by Emily Sarah Holt
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