criterion

Treating the Lawson criterion as a single unchanging threshold overlooks physical processes that can substantially alter the requirements for ignition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Mr. Diamond’s emphasis on common benchmarks for success—a country’s economic growth, a corporation’s profits—leaves unexplored the possibility that each unique leader might harbor his or her own criterion of achievement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Back at Ratchford's office on the third day, he figured a way around the problematic income criterion.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

The first — and most obvious — criterion is that Connectors know lots of people.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

We first need to establish some criteria - history, heritage, fanbase, stadium.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

“Visibility may depend less on advertising to people and more on being clearly described to agents through specs, structured product data and reviews that match the criteria agents ask about,” Kim said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Stars are based on 40-some criteria that encompass patient experience surveys and a range of care metrics.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

That’s a tricky decision to make, because the criteria for impactful album sequencing are not at all the same for a live show.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

But what she cannot be as certain about are the criteria she uses to form her preferences in that first instant of meeting someone face-to-face.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The teachers and the boys alike know that they are never true criterions of progress, that they are seldom even fair representations of the actual course of study.

From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

How many tests or criterions are here named?

From Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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

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

It is a sort of extra, having nothing to do with criterions of intelligence or mental development, like the repeater movement in a watch.

From Camp and Trail by Stewart Edward White