Crossword clues for benchmark
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
benchmark \benchmark\, bench mark \bench mark\ (Surveying)
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Any permanent mark to which other levels may be referred. such as:
A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.
a surveyer's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point.
something serving as a standard by which related items may be judged; as, his painting sets the benchmark of quality.
a test or series of tests designed to compare the qualities or performance of different devices of the same type. Certain sets of computer programs are much used as benchmarks for comparing the performance of different computers, especially by comparing the time it takes to complete a test.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A standard by which something is evaluated or measured. 2 A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point. 3 (context computing English) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment. vb. (context transitive English) To measure the performance of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
WordNet
n. a standard by which something can be measured or judged; "his painting sets the benchmark of quality"
a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point [syn: bench mark]
Wikipedia
Benchmark may refer to:
Benchmark is an American venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of numerous successful startups including Dropbox, Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, and Instagram.
In 1997, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which made it worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999.
Other high-profile investments include CyanogenMod, Domo, New Relic, Nextdoor, Stitch Fix, WeWork, Xapo, Yelp, Zendesk, Zillow and Zipcar.
Benchmark is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The "maverick" firm differs from most VC firms, which are named for their founders and are structured hierarchically; Benchmark is "a lean operation in which its six full-time partners share profits equally."
The firm announced in May 2012 it would be expanding beyond its Menlo Park, California headquarters by opening a second headquarters with more than 10,000 square feet in San Francisco’s emerging tech corridor, the Mid-Market neighborhood.
Benchmark is a British game show that aired on Channel 4 from 1 June to 31 December 2015. It is hosted by Paddy McGuinness.
The term bench mark, or 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 leveling rod could be accurately repositioned in the same place in the future. These marks were usually indicated with a chiseled arrow below the horizontal line.
The term is generally applied to any item used to mark a point as an elevation reference. Frequently, bronze or aluminum disks are set in stone or concrete, or on rods driven deeply into the earth to provide a stable elevation point. If an elevation is marked on a map, but there is no physical mark on the ground, it is a spot height.
The height of a benchmark is calculated relative to the heights of nearby benchmarks in a network extending from a fundamental benchmark. A fundamental benchmark is a point with a precisely known relationship to the level datum of the area, typically mean sea level. The position and height of each benchmark is shown on large-scale maps.
The terms "height" and "elevation" are often used interchangeably, but in many jurisdictions they have specific meanings; "height" commonly refers to a local or relative difference in the vertical (such as the height of a building), whereas "elevation" refers to the difference from a nominated reference surface (such as sea-level, or a mathematical/geodetic model that approximates the sea level known as the geoid). Elevation may be specified as normal height (above a reference ellipsoid), orthometric height, or dynamic height which have slightly different definitions.
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.
A benchmark crude or marker crude is a crude oil that serves as a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil. There are three primary benchmarks, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Blend, and Dubai Crude. Other well-known blends include the OPEC Reference Basket used by OPEC, Tapis Crude which is traded in Singapore, Bonny Light used in Nigeria, Urals oil used in Russia and Mexico's Isthmus. Energy Intelligence Group publishes a handbook which identified 195 major crude streams or blends in its 2011 edition.
Benchmarks are used because there are many different varieties and grades of crude oil. Using benchmarks makes referencing types of oil easier for sellers and buyers.
There is always a spread between WTI, Brent and other blends due to the transportation cost. This is the price that controls world oil market price.
Usage examples of "benchmark".
But even heterosexual monogamy within marriage, long considered to be the benchmark of normalcy, can be riddled with problems.
The value of writing that paragraph lay, first, in giving her proof that she could do it, and, second, in giving her a benchmark for rethinking and revising the rest of her book.
The thermoluminescence test was the benchmark of authenticity for all articles made of fired clay.
Since according to the steadily lengthening list of benchmarks being provided by the instrumentation there was no neurobiological basis for such enlargement, it had to be a scanner error.
Sonoma had often compared their wines with international benchmarks, and favorably so.
In the eighties, American concepts of dumbing down horror provided grim new benchmarks, reaching even lower.
Political campaigns are often orgies of deception, but the battle over Amendment 4 set a grimy new benchmark.
I hope this will be a benchmark for them all to see a continued increase, a kind of progress.
All his life he had been deeply irritated at the way people, particularly people of a liberal persuasion, particularly his father and mother, had got into the habit of using the Nazis as some kind of ready benchmark for things of which they disapproved.
His medical knowledge, love of unravelling mysteries and his brilliant idea of creating a central figure to run through all his stories, helped to establish a benchmark for all those who followed in the genre.
Carialle said, displaying star maps empty of neon-colored benchmarks or route vectors.
Imaginary, of course, visible only on benchmarking programs, but enhanced for your viewing pleasure.
This indicates the benchmarking codes for this sector," she said, activating the screen to show Cridi's star in relation to the nearest blue lines.
Figuring an average top income tax rate of 70 percent during the Ali years, and using the 1972 Consumer Price Index as our benchmark, Ruth's salary works out to the equivalent of $23.
Soon it would replace it as the world's benchmark currency, especially if the American financial markets were foolish enough to reopen later in the day.