criteria
Meaning of criteria
plural noun
- a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided.
they award a green label to products that meet certain environmental criteria
early 17th century: from Greek kritērion ‘means of judging’, from kritēs (see critic).
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Hyphenation of criteria
cri-te-ria
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- criteria is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
criteria synonyms
Meaning the underlying support or foundation for an idea, argument, or process:
Meaning a required or agreed level of quality or attainment:
Meaning a standard or pattern, especially of social behaviour, that is typical or expected:
Meaning a standard used for comparison:
Meaning a standard or point of reference against which things may be compared:
Meaning a standard or criterion by which something is judged or recognized:
Meaning a means of establishing whether an action, item, or situation is an instance of a specified quality, especially one held to be undesirable:
Meaning a mathematical relationship or rule expressed in symbols:
Meaning an indication of the degree, extent, or quality of something:
Meaning a means of estimating something:
Meaning each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another:
Meaning an instrument measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in forecasting the weather and determining altitude:
Meaning a thing that indicates the state or level of something:
Meaning an act of identifying something precisely or of stating a precise requirement:
Meaning a person who shows the way to others, especially one employed to show tourists around places of interest:
Meaning a general rule, principle, or piece of advice:
Meaning a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning:
Meaning one of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct or procedure within a particular area of activity:
Meaning the body of divine commandments as expressed in the Bible or other religious texts:
Meaning a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged:
Meaning a way in which something is usually done:
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Words that rhyme with criteria
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