criterion

Known as the Lawson criterion, this equation defines the conditions required for ignition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Or think of religion, where Mr. Diamond’s criterion of success—widespread devotion by millions—is hardly the only point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The criterion, external allows the children of parents in receipt of benefits - specifically Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit - to get priority for a pre-school place.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

"Coolness and summer comfort have become a property criterion in their own right," she said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Measured by the standards established by Warburg, most pesticides meet the criterion of the perfect carcinogen too well for comfort.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

She had obesity and other chronic conditions and met the criteria to take it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The broadcaster has since asked that the court dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the programme does not meet the legal criteria for defamation and was not available in the US.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

If the voting criteria is to reward the year’s finest movies, the answer would be an unqualified yes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

"We chose Shell because it's an emblematic company. It meets all the criteria," Thales Miola, a lawyer for the Brazilian NGO Instituto Preservar, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“I wonder what their criteria were,” Redemption said.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

The proprietor wishes particularly to impress upon the overseer the criterions by which he will judge of his usefullness and capacity.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

For a few words of this class, however, there are double plurals in use; as, automata or atomatons, criteria or criterions, parhelia or parhelions; and the plural of phenomenon appears to be always phenomena.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Simply that I am I, that I have lived through certain experiences, that I have certain criterions of taste and judgment that you have not.

From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee

Those are the criterions of political changes in England-but, as my conversion is of foreign extraction, I shall not be the richer for it.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

Consequently it has become evident that the four criterions or standards of judgment by which the human mind reaches its conclusions are faulty and inaccurate.

From Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá