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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   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]