A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

plural of criterion

Alternative form of criterial

(physics) A necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the achievement of sustained release of energy from a nuclear fusion reactor; that the heating effect of the reaction should exceed the losses.

(probability theory) A formula used to determine the optimal size of a series of bets in order to maximize the logarithm of wealth.

(psychiatry, chiefly in the plural) Any of a set of influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria developed from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.

(number theory) A theorem which states that, given a positive integer a which is coprime to an odd prime number p, a is a quadratic residue of p if and only if a^((p-1)/2) is congruent to 1 modulo p.

(philosophy) Synonym of verifiability principle

(philosophy) Synonym of verifiability principle

(philosophy) Synonym of verifiability principle