Criterion vs Standards - What's the difference?
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A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
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(plural form only): Pertaining to standards, concerned with standards, specific to standards.
As nouns the difference between criterion and standards
is that criterion is a standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged while standards is .criterion
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Alternative forms
* (nonstandard) * criteriumNoun
(criteria)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”.External links
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----standards
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(head)Verb
(head)- There is some sign of disparate standards bodies becoming more closely aligned.