criterion
Academic Word List, sublist 3.
About 15.50 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.
criterion of choice, of decision, of selection
Similar words
standard measure touchstone benchmark method reckoning indicator reference basis qualification
Often followed by
of for is in to that and by was
Word family
criteria criterions
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