| criteria | (n.) | criterion |
| criterion | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. criterion, measure, standard, touchstone | a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated.; "the schools comply with federal standards"; "they set the measure for all subsequent work" |
| ~ benchmark | a standard by which something can be measured or judged.; "his painting sets the benchmark of quality" |
| ~ earned run average, era | (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched. |
| ~ gpa, grade point average | a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted. |
| ~ procrustean bed, procrustean rule, procrustean standard | a standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality. |
| ~ yardstick | a measure or standard used for comparison.; "on what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?" |
| ~ medium of exchange, monetary system | anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region. |
| ~ system of measurement, metric | a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic. |
| ~ graduated table, ordered series, scale, scale of measurement | an ordered reference standard.; "judging on a scale of 1 to 10" |
| ~ standard of measurement, gauge | accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared. |
| ~ baseline | an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared.; "the established a baseline for the budget" |
| ~ norm | a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical.; "the current middle-class norm of two children per family" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. criterion, standard | the ideal in terms of which something can be judged.; "they live by the standards of their community" |
| ~ control condition, control | a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment.; "the control condition was inappropriate for the conclusions he wished to draw" |
| ~ ideal | the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain. |
| ~ design criteria | criteria that designers should meet in designing some system or device.; "the job specifications summarized the design criteria" |
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