Definition of standard

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Standard (n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.

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Oriflamme :: Oriflamme (n.) A standard or ensign, in battle..
Unit :: Unit (n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind..
Trier :: Trier (n.) One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.
Platinoid :: Platinoid (n.) An alloy of German silver containing tungsten; -- used for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.
Sterling :: Sterling (n.) Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
Mark :: Mark (n.) Limit or standard of action or fact; as, to be within the mark; to come up to the mark..
Betterness :: Betterness (n.) The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.
Seal :: Seal (v. t.) To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware..
Cornet :: Cornet (n.) The standard of such a troop.
Test :: Test (n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Vexillum :: Vexillum (n.) A flag or standard.
Money :: Money (n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling..
Standardize :: Standard-bred (a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders..
Titrate :: Titrate (n.) To analyse, or determine the strength of, by means of standard solutions. Cf. Standardized solution, under Solution..
"""broad Gauge " :: Broad gauge () A wider distance between the rails than the standard gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge..
Short :: Short (superl.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money..
Standard :: Standard (a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors..
Stand-by :: Standard-wing (n.) A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
Union :: Union (n.) A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain..
Ensign :: Ensign (n.) A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice..
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