Usually means: Standard for measuring performance comparably.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. benchmark: Merriam-Webster
  2. benchmark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. benchmark: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. benchmark: Collins English Dictionary
  5. benchmark: Vocabulary.com
  6. Benchmark, benchmark: Wordnik
  7. benchmark: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. benchmark: Wiktionary
  9. benchmark: Dictionary.com
  10. benchmark: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Benchmark (computing), Benchmark (crude oil), Benchmark (disambiguation), Benchmark (game show), Benchmark (surveying), Benchmark (venture capital firm), Benchmark: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. benchmark: Rhymezone
  13. benchmark: FreeDictionary.org
  14. benchmark: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Benchmark: The Word Detective
  16. benchmark: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. benchmark: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. benchmark: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. BENCHMARK: Accounting Glossary
  5. Benchmark: bizterms.net
  6. Benchmark: Moneyterms
  7. Glossary of Education Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  8. Benchmark: Investopedia
  9. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  10. benchmark: Legal dictionary
  11. benchmark: Financial dictionary
  12. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  14. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  15. Benchmark: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. benchmark: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. benchmark: Netlingo
  3. benchmark: CCI Computer
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. benchmark: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. benchmark: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BENCHMARK: Acronym Finder
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. benchmark: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
noun:  A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
noun:  (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
verb:  (transitive) To measure the performance or quality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
verb:  (intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
verb:  (ambitransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.

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