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Benchmark vs Normative - What's the difference?

benchmark | normative |

As a noun 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.

As an adjective normative is

of or pertaining to a norm or standard.

benchmark

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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]
    • 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.
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To measure the performance of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.

    • References

    normative

    English

    (wikipedia normative)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
  • Conforming to a norm or norms.
    • normative behaviour
  • Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
    • normative grammar

    Hyponyms

    * prescriptive * proscriptive

    Derived terms

    * normative economics * normative ethics * normative grammar * normatively * normativeness * normative science * normative system * normativist * normativity

    Related terms

    * norm * normal