Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
benchmark \benchmark\, bench mark \bench mark\ (Surveying)
1. Any permanent mark to which other levels may be referred.
such as:
(a) A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference
to which the height of tides and floods may be
measured.
(b) a surveyer's mark on a permanent object of
predetermined position and elevation used as a
reference point.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5]
2. something serving as a standard by which related items may
be judged; as, his painting sets the benchmark of quality.
[PJC + WordNet 1.5]
3. 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.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
benchmark
n 1: a standard by which something can be measured or judged;
"his painting sets the benchmark of quality"
2: a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined
position and elevation used as a reference point [syn:
{benchmark}, {bench mark}]
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
benchmark
n.
[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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