Usually means: Standard used for judging something.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word criterion:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. criterion: Merriam-Webster
  2. criterion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. criterion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. criterion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. criterion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Criterion, criterion: Wordnik
  7. criterion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. criterion: Wiktionary
  9. criterion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. criterion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. criterion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Criterion, criterion: Dictionary.com
  13. criterion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. criterion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Criterion, The Criterion (American magazine), The Criterion (magazine), The Criterion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Criterion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. criterion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. criterion: Rhymezone
  19. criterion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. criterion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. criterion: FreeDictionary.org
  22. criterion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. criterion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Criterion: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. criterion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. criterion: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Criterion: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  3. criterion: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Criterion: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. criterion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. criterion: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. criterion: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Criterion: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. criterion: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

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