criterionとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion, “a test, a means of judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”); see critic.

発音

• IPA^(key): /kɹaɪˈtɪəɹi.ən/, /kɹɪˈtɪəɹi.ən/
• 韻: -ɪɹiən

名詞

criterion (複数形 criteria)

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

   Criterion of choice, of decision, of selection

   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 1, page 310:

     Knowledge has come to her too soon—knowledge of evil, unqualified by the general charities which longer experience infallibly brings; but her age has lent its own freshness to this first great emotion; it becomes unconsciously a criterion, and the judgment is harsh, because the remembrance is bitter.

   • 1986, Piotr Buczkowski; Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories‎^[1], Rodopi, →ISBN, ISSN 0303-8157, page 57:

     The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.

   • 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 409, number 8864:

     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?

使用する際の注意点

• 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, かつ so on), with corresponding plural form criterias. In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”.

関連する語

• criterial
• crisis
• critic
• criticize
• critical