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Exemplar vs Criterion - What's the difference?

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Exemplar is a related term of criterion.


As nouns the difference between exemplar and criterion

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

exemplar

Etymology 1

From (etyl) exemplaire, from exemplarium, from (etyl) exemplum.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model.
  • A role model.
  • Something typical or representative of a class; see example.
  • A pattern after which others should be made; see archetype.
  • A well known usage of a scientific theory.
  • A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
  • A copy of a book or writing.
  • (Udall)
    Synonyms
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) exemplaire, and its source, (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Exemplary.
  • *, II.8:
  • *:in our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare , than yours.
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    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”.