different between asses vs benchmark

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æs?z/
• Rhymes: -æs?z

Noun

asses

1. plural of ass

See also

• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Etymology 2

Latin ass?s, nominative plural of as

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æs?z/, (Latinistic) /?æsi?z/

Noun

asses

1. plural of as (“Roman coin”)

Anagrams

• Essas, SASEs, Sasse, Sessa, sasse, sessa

Latin

Verb

ass?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of ass?

Portuguese

Verb

asses

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of assar
2. second-person singular negative imperative of assar

English

Etymology

From bench +? mark. Originally (attested circa 1842) a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a "bench" (from 19th century land surveying jargon, meaning a type of bracket), to mount measuring equipment. Figurative sense attested circa 1884.

Noun

benchmark (plural benchmarks)

1. A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
   • 2013, Marina Hyde, Is the pope Catholic? (in The Guardian, 20 September 2013)[1]

     Is the pope Catholic? Forgive the posing of a question that is usually rhetorical, the absolute benchmark of certainty, and traditionally regarded as even more settled than the one pertaining to the lavatorial arrangements of bears.

2. A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
3. (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.

Translations

Verb

benchmark (third-person singular simple present benchmarks, present participle benchmarking, simple past and past participle benchmarked)

1. (transitive) To measure the performance or quality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
   1. (intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
   2. (transitive, intransitive, followed be against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.

Derived terms

• benchmarketing

References