Benchmark may refer to:

Business and economics

Benchmarking Benchmarking is the practice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost. Benchmarking is used to measure performan ...

, evaluating performance within organizations * Benchmark price *

Benchmark (crude oil) A benchmark crude or marker crude is a Petroleum, 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 b ...

, oil-specific practices

Science and technology

Benchmark (surveying) The term benchmark, bench mark, or survey 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 le ...

, a point of known elevation marked for the purpose of surveying *

Benchmarking (geolocating) Benchmarking, also known as benchmark hunting, is a hobby activity in which participants find benchmarks (also known as survey markers or geodetic control points). The term "bench mark" is used only to refer to survey markers that designate a c ...

, an activity involving finding benchmarks *

Benchmark (computing) 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 Computer performance, performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard Software perfo ...

, the result of running a computer program to assess performance * Benchmark, a best-performing, or

gold standard A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold. The gold standard was the basis for the international monetary system from the 1870s to the early 1920s, and from the la ...

test in medicine and statistics

Companies

Benchmark Electronics Benchmark Electronics Inc is an EMS, ODM, and OEM company based in Tempe, Arizona in the Phoenix metropolitan area.Worldwide Locations > The Americas > New Hampshire Benchmark Electronics Official Site Singapore; Suzhou, China.;

, an electronics manufacturer *

Benchmark (venture capital firm) Benchmark is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that provides seed money to startups. History The firm's most successful investment was a 1997 investment of $6.7 million in eBay for 22.1% of the company. In 2011, it invested $12 mill ...

, a venture capital firm *

Benchmark Recordings Benchmark Recordings is a record label that was founded in 2000 by music industry veterans Bill Coben and Denny Bruce. The initial catalog included the first four albums by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, which were originally released in the late 19 ...

, a music label with CDs by the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Mike Bloomfield

Other uses

* ''Benchmarking'' (journal), a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal relating to the field of quality management *

McAfee's Benchmark McAfee's Benchmark is a brand of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey produced by the Sazerac Company at its Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. The full name of the brand that appears on the bottle is "McAfee's Benchmark Old No. 8 B ...

, a brand of bourbon * ''Benchmark'' (game show), on UK Channel 4

Business and economics

Science and technology

Companies

Other uses

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