criterium

From French critérium (“competition”), from Late Latin criterium, 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).
2. Alternative form of criterion
   • 1867 George H. Lewes, A Biographical History of Philosophy 1.181:

     There is no criterium of truth.

• (bicycle racing): crit

• circuit race

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

• “criterium” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

• tricerium

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

• criterium

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cri‧te‧ri‧um

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

1. (plural criteria) criterion, standard for comparison and appreciation
2. (plural criteriums) notably in cycling, race of low athletic merit

• (criterion): evaluatiecriterium
• (criterion): falsifieerbaarheidscriterium
• (race): wielercriterium