Benchmark may refer to:
Business and economics
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Benchmarking, evaluating performance within organizations
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Benchmark price Benchmark price (BP) is the price per unit of quantity in a specific segment of the international marketplace, set by the country or producers' organization that consistently exports the largest quantity or volume in a marketplace such as the Londo ...
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Benchmark (crude oil), oil-specific practices
Science and technology
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Benchmark (surveying)
The term benchmark, bench mark, or survey benchmark originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle-iron could be placed to form a "bench" for a leveling rod, thus ensuring that a le ...
, a point of known elevation marked for the purpose of surveying
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Benchmarking (geolocating), an activity involving finding benchmarks
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Benchmark (computing)
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 ter ...
, the result of running a computer program to assess performance
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gold standard
A gold standard is a Backed currency, monetary system in which the standard economics, economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold. The gold standard was the basis for the international monetary system from the 1870s to the ...
test in medicine and statistics
Companies
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Benchmark Electronics
Benchmark Electronics Inc is an EMS, ODM, and OEM company based in Tempe, Arizona in the Phoenix metropolitan area.Worldwide Locations > The Americas > New Hampshire Benchmark Electronics Official Site Singapore; Suzhou, China.; , an electronics manufacturer
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Benchmark (venture capital firm), a venture capital firm
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Benchmark Recordings, a music label with CDs by the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Mike Bloomfield
Other uses
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''Benchmarking'' (journal), a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal relating to the field of quality management
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McAfee's Benchmark, a brand of bourbon
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''Benchmark'' (game show), on UK Channel 4
See also
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Specification (technical standard)
A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service. A specification is often a type of technical standard.
There are different types of technical or engineering specificati ...
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