noun
Meaning 1
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: criterion
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: criterion
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
benchmark
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: datum
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: datum
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To measure the performance or quality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
To give certain results in a benchmark test.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To measure the performance or quality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bench mark
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reference point, point of reference, reference
noun
Meaning 7
a standard by which something can be measured or judged
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his painting sets the benchmark of quality
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: standard, criterion, measure, touchstone
History
Etymology
From bench + mark. First use appears c. 1842. Originally a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench (from land surveying jargon in the 19th century, meaning a type of bracket), to mount measuring equipment. The figurative sense first appears c. 1884.
Across languages
Translations
66 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: etapë — standard
- Bulgarian: бенчмарк (benčmark) — standard
- Dutch: ijkpunt — standard
- Dutch: maatstaf — standard
- Finnish: vertailukohta — standard
- Finnish: mittari — standard
- French: critère — standard
- French: aune — standard
- French: étalon — standard
- German: Maßstab — standard
- German: Höhenfestpunkt — standard
- German: Kriterium — standard
- Hindi: मानक (mānak) — standard
- Hindi: मापदंड (māpdaṇḍ) — standard
- Hindi: कसौटी (kasauṭī) — standard
- Hungarian: etalon — standard
- Hungarian: mérce — standard
- Indonesian: tolok ukur — standard
- Indonesian: baku mutu — standard
- Italian: riferimento — standard
- Italian: termine di paragone — standard
- Italian: paragone — standard
- Italian: modello — standard
- Italian: paradigma — standard
- Latvian: etalons — standard
- Malay: tanda aras — standard
- Portuguese: padrão — standard
- Russian: крите́рий (kritérij) — standard
- Russian: мери́ло (merílo) — standard
- Russian: станда́рт (standárt) — standard
- Russian: показа́тель (pokazátelʹ) — standard
- Spanish: cota de referencia — standard
- Spanish: estándar de comparación — standard
- Spanish: acotación referencial — standard
- Spanish: marca comparativa — standard
- Swedish: måttstock — standard
- Swedish: riktmärke — standard
- Turkish: mihenk taşı — standard
- Bulgarian: ре́пер (réper) — surveyor's mark
- Czech: nivelační bod — surveyor's mark
- Finnish: kiintopiste — surveyor's mark
- French: point de référence — surveyor's mark
- French: repère — surveyor's mark
- Hungarian: szintjel — surveyor's mark
- Icelandic: viðmiðunarmerki — surveyor's mark
- Icelandic: fastmerki — surveyor's mark
- Icelandic: viðmið — surveyor's mark
- Italian: punto di riferimento — surveyor's mark
- Japanese: 水準点 (suijunten) — surveyor's mark
- Polish: punkt odniesienia — surveyor's mark
- Polish: reper — surveyor's mark
- Portuguese: ponto de referência — surveyor's mark
- Romanian: punct de reper — surveyor's mark
- Romanian: reper — surveyor's mark
- Russian: репер (reper) — surveyor's mark
- Spanish: marca topográfica — surveyor's mark
- Spanish: punto de referencia — surveyor's mark
- Spanish: cota — surveyor's mark
- Spanish: acotación — surveyor's mark
- Swedish: fixpunkt — surveyor's mark
- Bulgarian: бенчмарк (benčmark) — computing: program executed to assess performance
- Esperanto: etalono — computing: program executed to assess performance
- Finnish: suorituskykytesti — computing: program executed to assess performance
- French: banc d'essai — computing: program executed to assess performance
- Indonesian: tolok ukur — computing: program executed to assess performance
- Polish: test wydajności — computing: program executed to assess performance
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