Criteria is typically a plural noun referring to standards on which a judgement can be made.
Its singular form is criterion, but evidence shows that criteria is frequently used as a singular as well as a plural.
Criteria are often the particular requirements that someone or something must meet in order to be considered or qualify for something.
An applicant for a job may be evaluated based on several.
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plural of criterion (Definition of criteria from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
In standard usage, the plural is generally criteria, although criterions is sometimes used as well.
Properly speaking, the form criteria should never be a singular noun, and phrases like this criteria and single.
Like some other nouns borrowed from the Greek, criterion has both a Greek plural, criteria, and a plural formed on the English pattern, criterions.
The plural in -a occurs with far greater frequency than does.
Information about all of the scholarships and eligibility criteria can be found here.
It met all our criteria; a stable employment, reasonably priced homes, a state college and a regional hospital.
Few cases met fell within our criteria.
So also he has drawn a close parallel between the.
