criterion

noun

Etymology: From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion, “a test, a means of judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”); see critic.

1. A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.

   “Near-synonym: benchmark”

   “criterion of choice, of decision, of selection”