Frombench +mark. First use appears c. 1842. Originally a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure abench (from land surveying jargon in the 19th century, meaning a type ofbracket), to mount measuring equipment. The figurative sense first appears c. 1884.[1]
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛn(t)ʃmɑːk/
- Hyphenation:bench‧mark
benchmark (pluralbenchmarks)
- Astandard by which something isevaluated ormeasured.
- Near-synonym:criterion
2013 September 20,Marina Hyde, “Is the pope Catholic?”, inThe Guardian:Is the pope Catholic? Forgive the posing of a question that is usually rhetorical, the absolutebenchmark of certainty, and traditionally regarded as even more settled than the one pertaining to the lavatorial arrangements of bears.
2024 November 8, Luz Pena, “California's gas prices could have major increase with passing of new fuel standards”, inABC7 News:In a press release, CARB expanded on their decision. "The LCFS reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by setting a declining carbon intensity target for transportation fuels used in California; producers that don't meet establishedbenchmarks buy credits from those that do. This system has generated $4 billion in annual private sector investment toward a cleaner transportation sector."
- Asurveyor'smark made on somestationaryobject and shown on amap; used as areferencepoint.
- Near-synonym:datum
- (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
standard
- Albanian:etapë (sq)
- Bulgarian:бенчмарк m(benčmark)
- Dutch:ijkpunt (nl) n,maatstaf (nl)
- Finnish:vertailukohta (fi),mittari (fi)
- French:critère (fr) m,aune (fr) f,étalon (fr) m
- German:Maßstab (de) m,Höhenfestpunkt m,Kriterium (de) n
- Hungarian:etalon (hu),mérce (hu)
- Indonesian:tolok ukur (id),baku mutu
- Italian:riferimento (it) m,termine di paragone (it) m,paragone (it) m,modello (it) m,paradigma (it) m
- Latvian:etalons (lv) m,etalons (lv) m
- Malay:tanda aras
- Portuguese:padrão (pt)
- Russian:крите́рий (ru) m(kritérij),мери́ло (ru) n(merílo),станда́рт (ru) m(standárt),показа́тель (ru)(pokazátelʹ)
- Spanish:cota de referencia f,estándar de comparación m,acotaciónreferencial f,marcacomparativa f
- Swedish:måttstock (sv) c,riktmärke n
- Turkish:mihenk taşı (tr)
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computing: program executed to assess performance
benchmark (third-person singular simple presentbenchmarks,present participlebenchmarking,simple past and past participlebenchmarked)
- (transitive) Tomeasure theperformance orquality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
- (intransitive, followed byat) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
- (ambitransitive, followed byagainst) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.
