benchmark
Noun
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Noun
benchmark (plural benchmarks)
- A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
- 2013, Marina Hyde, Is the pope Catholic? (in The Guardian, 20 September 2013)
- Is the pope Catholic? Forgive the posing of a question that is usually rhetorical, the absolute benchmark of certainty, and traditionally regarded as even more settled than the one pertaining to the lavatorial arrangements of bears.
- 2013, Marina Hyde, Is the pope Catholic? (in The Guardian, 20 September 2013)
- A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
- (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
- French: critère
- German: Maßstab, Höhenfestpunkt, Kriterium
- Italian: riferimento, termine di paragone, paragone, modello, paradigma
- Russian: крите́рий
- French: point de référence, repère
- Italian: punto di riferimento
- Portuguese: ponto de referência
- Russian: репер
benchmark (benchmarks, present participle benchmarking; past and past participle benchmarked)
- (transitive) To measure the performance of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
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