criterion definition
criterion (plural criteria) A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged. 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, âLetters: Say it as simply as possibleâ, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864: Congratulations on managing to use the phrase âpreponderant criterionâ in a chart (âOn your marksâ, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?