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Meanings of criterion in English

Portuguese
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Catalan
pedra de toc
Spanish
criterio

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

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        Usage of criterion in English
        1
        Excessive greenhouse gas emissions became a criterion for exclusion four years ago.
        Reuters
        2
        In those days, the main criterion was whether the patient could pay.
        The Guardian
        3
        Perceptual decisions require the accumulation of sensory information to a response criterion.
        Pubmed
        4
        Usually, the most important selection criterion is the cell specific production rate.
        Pubmed
        5
        Let schools treat all equally, with local demand being the first criterion.
        The Irish Times
        6
        Images that meet the distance criterion are referred to as feasible images.
        Pubmed
        7
        Surveyors undertook criterion-based medical record reviews using an electronic data collection tool.
        Pubmed
        8
        Responsibility to the mass of the nation is the criterion of freedom.
        The Monikins
        9
        Art and morality agree in rejecting pleasure as the criterion of good.
        Laws
        10
        However, in most countries the effluent criterion applies to total nitrogen only.
        Pubmed
        11
        The only exclusion criterion was a history of documented resistance to enfuvirtide.
        Pubmed
        12
        Lord help us if that is the only criterion this nutcase uses.
        Midnight caller
        13
        Beauty of tone is the only criterion of the correct vocal action.
        The Psychology of Singing / A Rational Method of Voice Culture B...
        14
        Is the criterion of conduct in the custody of the scientific experimenter?
        Morality as a Religion / An exposition of some first principles
        15
        The criterion of truth then was no other than the gripping phantasy.
        A Guide to Stoicism
        16
        The notion of the Ego cannot therefore supply us with this criterion.
        The Mind and the Brain / Being the Authorised Translation of L'Â...
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