Criterion
[kraɪ'tɪərɪən] or [kraɪ'tɪrɪən]
Definition
(noun.) the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; 'they live by the standards of their community'.
Editor: Sharon--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
Checker: Sandra
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Standard, test, touchstone, measure, rule.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Test, touchstone, proof, standard, measure
ANT:Eye, glance, intention, conjecture, scan
Typist: Wilhelmina
Definition
n. a means or standard of judging: a test: a rule standard or canon:—pl. Critē′ria.
Edited by Diana
Examples
- Whatever the mystery which has brought forth man and the universe, it is a non-human mystery, it has its own great ends, man is not the criterion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Let us apply the first element in this criterion to a despotically governed state. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And Gerald could not help it, he was bound to strive to come up to her criterion, fulfil her idea of a man and a human-being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hence the amount of difference is one very important criterion in settling whether two forms should be ranked as species or varieties. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The two elements in our criterion both point to democracy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And it is only repeating in another form what has already been said, to declare that the criterion here must be social. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Well, but what ought to be the criterion? Plato. The Republic.
- They have no practice in selecting what is appropriate, and no criterion to go by; everything is on the same dead static level. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And the criterion which he proposes is difference in the working of the faculties. Plato. The Republic.
- A democratic criterion requires us to develop capacity to the point of competency to choose and make its own career. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- An example of the latter is given in Fig. 225, which represents the Criterion generator. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Otherwise a democratic criterion of education can only be inconsistently applied. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He knew that her criterion was the only one that mattered. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The discovery of this function must be employed as a criterion for trying and sifting the facts taught and the methods used. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The place of communication in personal doing supplies us with a criterion for estimating the value of informational material in school. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We may apply the results of our discussion to a consideration of the criteria involved in a correct establishing of aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Criteria of Good Aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Democratic society is peculiarly dependent for its maintenance upon the use in forming a course of study of criteria which are broadly human. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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