search criteria

collocation in English

meaningsofsearchandcriterion

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search
noun
uk
/sɜːtʃ/us
/sɝːtʃ/
an attempt to find someone ...
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criterion
noun[C]
uk
/kraɪˈtɪə.ri.ən/us
/kraɪˈtɪr.i.ən/
a standard by which you judge, decide about, or deal ...
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(Definition ofsearchandcriterionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsearch criteria

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The reason for the levels of subcategorisation is to provide for alternativesearchcriteria.
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Thesearchcriteria, output fields, and selection criteria were identical for the three suffixes.
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No search engine is exhaustive, and tryingsearchcriteriain different engines can prove fruitful.
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Thesearchcriteriawere applied for stable and long-lived unstable nuclei as well as for isomeric nuclei.
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The relative importance of thesearchcriteria, in our context, experimental input conditions, is coded as weights.
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On the basis of thesearchcriteria, all information about the work of a representative should be available to citizens.
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In dynamic groups, however, an administrator can specifysearchcriteria.
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Queries generally containsearchcriteriarelated to the type and quality of service.
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All users which match thesearchcriteriawill be considered a member of this dynamic group.
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Metasearch engines enable users to entersearchcriteriaonce and access several search engines simultaneously.
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The site's faceted search interface gives users with the ability to refinesearchcriteriaincrementally.
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The site then sends the user recommendations based on their preferences andsearchcriteriafor example restaurants, museums and theatres.
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Search-ability indicates usage of keywords to help search engines direct users to websites that meet theirsearchcriteria.
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Search requests are handled free of charge provided they fall within standardsearchcriteria(for example, a single building per enquiry).
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The co-training models utilize both classifiers to determine the likelihood that a page will contain data relevant to thesearchcriteria.
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Search folders can be created with a specificsearchcriteria, specifying the subject, type and other attributes of the information being searched.
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One coul set the time indicator to any year and date between the year 1895 and 2100 for a narrowersearchcriteria.
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Users may search by name, location, specialty, or clinical interest, and will be provided with contact information for hematologists meeting thesearchcriteria.
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Users can create private or public calendars, including smart calendars which automatically update when events matchingsearchcriteriaare added or existing events are modified.
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Because the search engine used the tags, rather than the title, as a primarysearchcriteria, it was often difficult to find a video based on its name.
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In a full-text search, a search engine examines all of the words in every stored document as it tries to matchsearchcriteria(text specified by a user).
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The possiblesearchcriteriainclude a pattern to match against the file name or a time range to match against the modification time or access time of the file.
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