Standard

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Standard may refer to:

Flags

• Colours, standards and guidons
• Ensign, a distinguishing flag of a ship or a military unit
• Heraldic standard, a type of flag containing heraldic devices and used for personal identification
• War flag or other military standard

Norm, convention or requirement

• Standard (metrology), an object that bears a defined relationship to a unit of measure used for calibration of measuring devices
• Standard (unit), a US unit of volume for stacked firewood
• Breed standard (also called bench standard), in animal fancy and animal husbandry
• BioCompute Standard, a standard for next generation sequencing
• De facto standard, product or system with market dominance
• Gold standard, a monetary system based on gold; also used metaphorically for the best of several options, against which the others are measured
• Internet Standard, a specification ratified as an open standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force
• Learning standards, standards applied to education content
• Standard displacement, a naval term describing the weight and status of a warship
• Standard language, a particular variety of a language that has been given either legal or quasi-legal status
• Standard solution, in chemistry, a solution of known concentration
• Standard of care, the degree of prudence and caution required of an individual who is under a duty of care
• Technical standard, an established norm or requirement about technical systems
  • International standard, standards suitable for worldwide use
  • Open standard, a standard that is publicly available
  • Standard operating procedure, a step-by-step instruction to achieve a desired result
  • Standardization, the process of establishing technical standards
  • Standards organization, an entity primarily concerned with maintaining standards
• Unit of measure for softwood timber; see Petrograd Standard

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

Sports

• FK Standard Sumgayit, a former Azeri association football team
• Standard Liège, a Belgian association football team that is often abbreviated as Standard

Vehicles

Other businesses

• American Standard Companies, a global provider of air conditioning systems and services, bath and kitchen products, and vehicle control systems
• Standard Bank, one of South Africa's largest financial operators
• Standard Glass and Paint Company Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Iowa
• Standard Hotel, a hotel chain originating in Los Angeles
• Standard Insurance Company, an American insurance and financial company
• Standard Oil (1863–1911), a large integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing organization
• Standard Talking Machine Company, an early twentieth century record label
• The Standard, Copenhagen, a restaurant complex in central Copenhagen, Denmark
• The Standard, East Village, a hotel in New York City
• The Standard, High Line, a hotel in New York City

Computing and technology

• Standards (software)
• Standard cell, a voltage reference, or a building block for electronic integrated circuits

Plants and plant husbandry

• Standard (tree), a type of fruit tree form
• Coppice with standards, the retention of some mature trees in a wood mainly of trees which are coppiced

Other uses

• Standard (typeface)
• Standard (warez), rules for unauthorized public release of copyrighted material

See also

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