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Criterium vs Criterion - What's the difference?

criterium | criterion | Alternative forms |

Criterion is a alternative form of criterium.

Criterion is a descendant of criterium.



As nouns the difference between criterium and criterion

is that criterium is a mass-start road-cycle race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 1 km to 2 km (1/2 mile to just over 1 mile) while criterion is a standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

criterium

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cycling) A mass-start road-cycle race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 1 km to 2 km (1/2 mile to just over 1 mile).
  • * 1867 George H. Lewes, A Biographical History of Philosophy 1.181:
    • There is no criterium of truth.

    Synonyms

    * (bicycle racing) crit

    Coordinate terms

    * circuit race

    See also

    * ("criterium" on Wikipedia) * (Road cycle racing)

    References

    * ----

    criterion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (nonstandard) * criterium

    Noun

    (criteria)
  • A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
    • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion ” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}

    Usage notes

    * The plural form criterions also exists, but is much less common. * The form criteria is sometimes used as a nonstandard singular form (as in a criteria'', ''this criteria , and so on), with corresponding plural form criterias. In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”.

    Related terms

    * criterial * crisis * critic * criticize * critical

    External links

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    Anagrams

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