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Criterion, or its plural form criteria may refer to:
- Voting criteria, a number of methods of selecting candidates in an election
- Criteria air contaminants, air pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards
- Criterion Stakes, a horse race in Newmarket, England
- Criterion Wind Project, a wind farm in Maryland, United States
- Criterion Place, a proposed skyscraper in West Yorkshire, England
- Criterion Summit, a mountain pass in Oregon, United States
- Criterion, an historic unincorporated community in Oregon, United States
- Criterion Restaurant, London
Science and mathematics
- Criterion validity, in psychometrics, a measure of how well one variable or set of variables predicts an outcome
- Criterion-referenced test, translates a test score into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person
- Eisenstein's criterion, in mathematics, gives sufficient conditions for a polynomial to be irreducible over the rational numbers
- Euler's criterion, in number theory concerning primes
- Problem of the criterion, in epistemology, an issue regarding the starting point of knowledge
- Weyl's criterion, used in mathematics in the theory of diophantine approximation
Publishing
- The Criterion, a British literary magazine published from 1922 to 1939
- The New Criterion, a New York-based monthly literary magazine founded in 1982
- Jewish Criterion, a weekly newspaper in Pittsburgh, United States
Entertainment
- Criteria (band), an indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska
- Criteria Studios, recording studio in Miami, Florida
- The Criterion Collection, a company that produces collector's edition DVDs and Blu-ray discs
- Criterion Games, a game technology company in Guildford, England
Companies
- Criteria CaixaCorp, an investment holding company.
- Criterion Capital Partners, a global company which runs the social network Bebo
- Criterion Planners, an American urban and regional planning firm
- Criterion Global, an international media planning and buying agency
See also
- Information criterion (disambiguation)
- Criterion Theatre (disambiguation)
- Criterium, bicycle race
- Surat Al-Furqan (The Criterion, The Standard) is the 25th sura of the Qur'an