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criterion Definition In English

0 a standard by which you judge, decide about, or deal with something:
- The Health Service should not be judged by financial criteria alone.
1 a condition or fact used as a standard by which something can be judged or considered:
- not standard Is height a criteria for hiring police officers?
- Eight criteria will be used to select new stadium sites.
2 a standard by which you judge, decide about, or deal with something:
- As rates go up we will naturally tighten our lending criteria.
- When employing new staff, you need to be very clear about your selection criteria.
- Pay is a very important criterion for job satisfaction.

This limit for the vertical lengthscale is used because all the reported experiments satisfy this criterion.
This subdivision, however, is not relevant as far as the rough characterization of post-productivist criteria is concerned.
The conceptual definitions and targeting criteria proposed by this working group should then be tested in large-scale prospective studies to evaluate their predictive value.
Figure 2 shows the excitation trajectories optimized under constraints according to the criterion based on the determinant of the covariance matrix.
Coders were trained to reliability using selected video recorded free-play episodes that had been previously coded by criterion coders.
Moreover, we recognise that we have tended to fasten on some subset of the evidence based on restrictively 'modern' criteria.
They identified a substantial number of young women who had many of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa without fulfilling strict criteria.
Only symptoms with significant impact on daily activities contributed as diagnostic criteria.