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criterion

noun
/kɹɪˈtɪəɹi.ən//kɹaɪˈtɪə.ɹi.ən/UK/kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/US

Etymology

From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion, “a test, a means of judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”); see critic.

  1. derived from κριτήριον — “a test, a means of judging”
  2. borrowed from criterion

Definitions

  1. A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and…

    A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.

    • Near-synonym: benchmark
    • criterion of choice, of decision, of selection

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at criterion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at criterion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at criterion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA