bench mark
23 synonyms found
- bookmark
- cardinal point
- catstone
- chief thing
- cornerstone
- crisis
- critical point
- essential matter
- great point
- high point
- important thing
- landmark
- main thing
- material point
- milestone
- real issue
- salient point
- seamark
- sine qua non
- substantive point
- the point
- turning point
- whereabouts
Definition
(n) :
a standard by which something is evaluated or measured; a surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point
(v) :
to measure the performance of an item relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner