# Benchmark

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**Benchmark** may refer to:

## Business and economics

- [Benchmarking](/source/Benchmarking), evaluating performance within organizations
- [Benchmark price](/source/Benchmark_price)
- [Benchmark (crude oil)](/source/Benchmark_(crude_oil)), oil-specific practices

## Science and technology

- [Experimental benchmarking](/source/Experimental_benchmarking), the act of defining an experimental reference system to compare the accuracy of other non-experimental scientific methods
- [Benchmark (surveying)](/source/Benchmark_(surveying)), a point of known elevation marked for the purpose of surveying, a type of *survey marker*
- [Benchmarking (geolocating)](/source/Benchmarking_(geolocating)), an activity involving finding surveying benchmarks
- [Benchmark (computing)](/source/Benchmark_(computing)), the result of running a computer program to assess performance
- [Language model benchmark](/source/Language_model_benchmark), a particular kind of computing benchmark, specialized for assessing the performance of [language models](/source/Language_model).
- Benchmark, a best-performing, or [gold standard](/source/Gold_standard_(test)) test in medicine and statistics

## Companies

- [Benchmark Electronics](/source/Benchmark_Electronics), an electronics manufacturer
- [Benchmark (venture capital firm)](/source/Benchmark_(venture_capital_firm)), a venture capital firm
- [Benchmark Recordings](/source/Benchmark_Recordings), a music label with CDs by the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Mike Bloomfield

## Other uses

- [*Benchmarking* (journal)](/source/Benchmarking_(journal)), a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal relating to the field of quality management
- [McAfee's Benchmark](/source/McAfee's_Benchmark), a brand of bourbon
- [*Benchmark* (game show)](/source/Benchmark_(game_show)), on UK Channel 4

## See also

- [Specification (technical standard)](/source/Specification_(technical_standard))

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