benchmarks

Measures of performance, taken from the engineering world, but often referring to computer technology.

Did you see the benchmarks on anandtech for the new AMD 64? It is teh win!

by Kurt N. March 25, 2004

Benchmark partner

A person you once dated who checked all your boxes of your dream partner but in reality it didn’t work out between y’all and now you’re looking for him/her in every other person you date. Sad but true. I feel you.

Saurabh : Bro ya, she set the bar really high
Lak : Yeah I can relate. She’s your benchmark partner. Good luck finding someone like her. Cause I didn’t.

by Lak_Rathod December 15, 2021

nostalgic benchmark

When one person in a group or family holds on to a symbolic memory or experience with more importance than the other people involved in that experience or memory. For this person, a nostalgic benchmark holds a reference point for a significant event that is no longer significant to others who were involved in this experience or event.

A mother and son always go to a certain restaurant to eat chicken wings. As the son grows older, he no longer likes chicken wings and has no desire to eat them, but the mother insists on going back to the restaurant, which serves the chicken wings that both of them once loved. For the mother this is a nostalgic event, but for the son, who no longer eats chicken wings or likes them, this experience of going to the restaurant to eat chicken wings no longer holds any importance or nostalgia. So, for the mother this is a nostalgic benchmark, but for the son, it has no importance, or nostalgia, it has no benchmark anymore.

by merlin's memory July 25, 2011

benchmarks

Numeric ratings of a computers performance that can, to some extent be tweaked to give the results you want. Often used in forums to 'prove' that someones chosen product is the best

l33t forum user: I added a 3000 megacycle wonderdongle to my picturemaker and my benchmark is now 2837.
another l33t forum user: wtf rotfl @ l33t forum user!11

by itsjazzy March 21, 2004

benchmarks

Points of reference for a particular task or job. Or indicators of how well someone is doing.

Based on the days when engineers tested equipment for various vehicles on benches, and had marked the bench with reference points to show how well the device performed.

The basic benchmarks here in this job include that you perform at least 90% of the tasks in each working day, and clear at least 50% of anything left from the day before.

by D F STuckey March 23, 2004

benchmark

Used as a catch-all substitute for a similar and more appropriate word that you can't quite remember, acceptable only because of its obvious incorrectness

"You know guys, I'm glad we bought those brownies. That was really a... benchmark moment"

"becca's yanif score just passed 150... she's passed her final... benchmark"

"no mom, I can't help clean right now. I'm working on a... benchmark"

by B-Rizz January 9, 2009

bozo benchmark

The infamous "bozo benchmark" is when you install and start using the thing without reading any directions or warning labels. This benchmark can be used for everything from computer components to motorcycles, weed-whackers, and firearms.

My wife says that the "bozo benchmark" is merely a cheap fiction that I created to justify my typical male tendency to want to wade into stuff without reading the instructions. By enshrining that tendency as a benchmark, I legitimize it! She is, of course, completely correct.

by Michael Miller July 12, 2006