Criterion vs Undefined - What's the difference?
criterion | undefined |
A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
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(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a noun criterion
is a standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.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 ----undefined
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Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .