Criterion facts for kids

Criterion, or its plural form criteria, may refer to:

General

• Criterion, Oregon, a historic unincorporated community in the United States
• Criterion Place, a proposed skyscraper in West Yorkshire, England
• Criterion Restaurant, in London, England
• Criterion Stakes, a horse race in Newmarket, England
• Criterion Summit, a mountain pass in Oregon, United States
• Criterion Wind Project, a wind farm in Maryland, United States

Science and mathematics

• Criteria air contaminants, air pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards
• 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

• Criterion (journal), the first philosophy journal in Catalan, published from 1925 to 1969
• The Criterion, a British literary magazine published from 1922 to 1939
• The Criterion (American magazine), a New York–based literary magazine published from 1896 to 1905
• Jewish Criterion, a weekly newspaper in Pittsburgh, United States
• The New Criterion, a New York–based monthly literary magazine founded in 1982

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 video game developer in Guildford, England

Companies

• Criteria CaixaCorp, an investment holding company.
• Criterion Capital Partners, a global company which runs the social network Bebo

See also

In Spanish: Criterio para niños

• Information criterion (disambiguation)
• Criterion Theatre (disambiguation)
• Criterium, bicycle race
• Surat Al-Furqan (The Criterion, The Standard) is the 25th sura of the Qur'an
• Kriterion, a peer-reviewed journal of philosophy