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criterion
English
Alternative forms
- criteria (nonstandard)
- criterium
Etymology
From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek ????????? (krit?rion, “a test, a means of judging”), from ?????? (krit?s, “judge”), from ????? (krín?, “to judge”); see critic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?a??t???i.?n/, /k???t???i.?n/
- Rhymes: -??i?n
Noun
criterion (plural criteria)
- A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
Usage notes
- 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, and so on), with corresponding plural form criterias. In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”.
Related terms
- criterial
- crisis
- critic
- criticize
- critical
Translations
Further reading
- criterion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- criterion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- tricerion
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (krit?rion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kri?te.ri.on/, [k???t???i?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kri?te.ri.on/, [k?i?t????i?n]
Noun
criterion n (genitive criteri?); second declension
- criterion
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
Descendants
- ? Catalan: criteri
- ? Dutch: criterium
- ? English: criterion
- ? German: Kriterium
- ? Italian: criterio
- ? Spanish: criterio
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experiment
English
Etymology
From Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?sp?.??.m?nt/, /?k?sp?.??.m?nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?sp??.?.m?nt/, /?k?sp??.?.m?nt/
- Hyphenation: ex?per?i?ment
Noun
experiment (plural experiments)
- A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.
- South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The maisters of his long experiment, / And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
Derived terms
- sexperiment
Related terms
- experimental
Translations
Verb
experiment (third-person singular simple present experiments, present participle experimenting, simple past and past participle experimented)
- (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
- (transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- (transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
- 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:
- Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.
- 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:
Derived terms
- experimenter
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “experiment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin exper?mentum, attested from 1460.
Noun
experiment m (plural experiments)
- experiment
Derived terms
- experimental
- experimentar
References
Further reading
- “experiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “experiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “experiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ksp?r?m?nt]
Noun
experiment m
- experiment
Synonyms
- pokus m
Related terms
- experimentovat
- experimentální
Further reading
- experiment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- experiment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
From Old French experiment, from Latin experimentum.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ex?pe?ri?ment
Noun
experiment n (plural experimenten, diminutive experimentje n)
- experiment
Synonyms
- proef
- test
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: eksperimen
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin exper?mentum.
Noun
experiment m (plural experiments)
- experiment
Related terms
- experimentar
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin experimentum
Noun
experiment n (plural experimente)
- experiment
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exper?mentum, attested from 1682.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ksp(?)r??m?nt/
Noun
experiment n
- experiment
Declension
Related terms
- experimentell
References
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