criterium

• IPA^(key): /kɹaɪˈtɪəɹiəm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

From French critérium (“competition”), from Latin critērium, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion).

criterium (plural criteriums)

1. (cycling) A mass-start road-cycle race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 1 km to 2 km (1/2 mile to just over 1 mile).

• crit

• circuit race

• criterium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Road cycle racing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Latin critērium, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion).

criterium

1. Alternative form of criterion
   • 1867, George H. Lewes, A Biographical History of Philosophy 1.181:

     There is no criterium of truth.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “‖criterium”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN: “Latinized form of Gr. κριτήριον criterion, occas. used in English.”

• tricerium

Borrowed from New Latin critērium, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkriˈteː.ri.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: cri‧te‧ri‧um
• Rhymes: -eːriʏm

criterium n (plural criteria or criteriums, diminutive criteriumpje n)

1. criterion, standard for comparison and appreciation

• evaluatiecriterium
• falsifieerbaarheidscriterium

• → Indonesian: kriteria

criterium n (plural criteriums, diminutive criteriumpje n)

1. notably in cycling, race of low athletic merit

• wielercriterium