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"sense": "standard",
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"word": "mihenk taşı"
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"roman": "réper",
"sense": "surveyor's mark",
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"sense": "surveyor's mark",
"word": "szintjel"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "surveyor's mark",
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"masculine"
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"word": "punto di riferimento"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "surveyor's mark",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "surveyor's mark",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "surveyor's mark",
"word": "fixpunkt"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "benčmark",
"sense": "computing: program executed to assess performance",
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"masculine"
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"word": "бенчмарк"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "computing: program executed to assess performance",
"word": "etalono"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "computing: program executed to assess performance",
"word": "suorituskykytesti"
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"word": "benchmarkable"
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{
"word": "benchmarker"
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"word": "benchmarketing"
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"To measure the performance or quality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.",
"To give certain results in a benchmark test."
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"(transitive) To measure the performance or quality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.",
"(intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test."
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"To measure the performance or quality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.",
"To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing."
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"(transitive) To measure the performance or quality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.",
"(transitive, intransitive, 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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"word": "bench mark"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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