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Curriculum vs Criterion - What's the difference?

curriculum | criterion |

As nouns the difference between curriculum and criterion

is that curriculum is curriculum vitae while criterion is a standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

curriculum

English

(wikipedia curriculum)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The set of courses, coursework, and their content, offered at a school or university.
  • (obsolete) A racecourse; a place for running.

    • Derived terms

    * core curriculum * curriculum vitae * extracurricular

    criterion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (nonstandard) * criterium

    Noun

    (criteria)
  • A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
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    • , 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

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