Definitions for benchmark
bench·mark

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. benchmarknoun

   a standard by which something can be measured or judged

   "his painting sets the benchmark of quality"

2. benchmark, bench marknoun

   a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.7 / 3 votes

1. benchmarknoun

   A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.

2. benchmarknoun

   A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.

3. benchmarkverb

   To measure the performance of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.

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1. benchmark

   A benchmark is a standard or point of reference against which things may be compared or assessed. In business, it often refers to a measure used to compare the performance, quality, or efficiency of a system or process. In computing, it's used to test the performance of hardware or software.

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1. Benchmark

   In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it. The term 'benchmark' is also mostly utilized for the purposes of elaborately-designed benchmarking programs themselves. Benchmarking is usually associated with assessing performance characteristics of computer hardware, for example, the floating point operation performance of a CPU, but there are circumstances when the technique is also applicable to software. Software benchmarks are, for example, run against compilers or database management systems. Benchmarks provide a method of comparing the performance of various subsystems across different chip/system architectures. Test suites are a type of system intended to assess the correctness of software.

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1. benchmark

   [techspeak] An inaccurate measure of computer performance. “In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and benchmarks.” Well-known ones include Whetstone, Dhrystone, Rhealstone (see h), the Gabriel LISP benchmarks, the SPECmark suite, and LINPACK. See also machoflops, MIPS, smoke and mirrors.

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1. benchmark

   The benchmark symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the benchmark symbol and its characteristic.

Matched Categories

1. • Reference Point
   • Standard

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of benchmark in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of benchmark in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of benchmark in a Sentence

1. Najib Razak:

   Now there aren't any regulations, so there's no benchmark as to what's right and what's wrong, with this we can show that we are practicing the best practices.

2. Patricia Hemsworth:

   I believe the debacle of the May delivery threatened a benchmark which has provided the industry with an invaluable price discovery and risk transfer tool for 37 years.

3. Dou Yong:

   We look on Chile as the benchmark for the whole of Latin America.

4. Jamie Henn:

   If there's one thing the world has agreed upon about climate change it's 2 degrees should be the benchmark.

5. Kevin Johnson:

   It feels good, fifty is a big benchmark in this league, but now we want to get to 60.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=benchmark
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Benchmark
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=benchmark
5. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Benchmark
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=benchmark