All criterion synonyms

noun criterion

• test — Zoology. the hard, protective shell or covering of certain invertebrates, as echinoderms or tunicates.
• touchstone — a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing.
• benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
• principle — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
• yardstick — a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.
• precedent — Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
• norm — a standard, model, or pattern.
• proof — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
• paradigm — Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
• foundation — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
• scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
• basis — If something is done on a particular basis, it is done according to that method, system, or principle.
• pattern — a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet.
• original — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
• canon — A canon is a member of the clergy who is on the staff of a cathedral.
• rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• standard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
• prototype — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
• measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• opinion — a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
• model — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
• law — software law
• archetype — An archetype is something that is considered to be a perfect or typical example of a particular kind of person or thing, because it has all their most important characteristics.
• fact — Fully Automated Compiling Technique
• condition — If you talk about the condition of a person or thing, you are talking about the state that they are in, especially how good or bad their physical state is.
• gauge — to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.