Referent vs Benchmark - What's the difference?
referent | benchmark |
(semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
That which is referenced.
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
* 2013 , Martina Hyde, Is the pope Catholic?'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/20/is-pope-catholic-atheists-gay-people-abortion]
A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
To measure the performance of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
As nouns the difference between referent and benchmark
is that referent is the specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes while benchmark is a standard by which something is evaluated or measured.As a verb benchmark is
to measure the performance of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.referent
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(wikipedia referent)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* absent referentAnagrams
* * ----benchmark
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Noun
(en noun)- Is the pope Catholic? Forgive the posing of a question that is usually rhetorical, the absolute benchmark of certainty, and traditionally regarded as even more settled than the one pertaining to the lavatorial arrangements of bears.