Benchmark vs Validate - What's the difference?
benchmark | validate |
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.
To render valid.
To check or prove the validity of; verify.
As verbs the difference between benchmark and validate
is that benchmark is to measure the performance of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner while validate is to render valid.As a noun benchmark
is a standard by which something is evaluated or measured.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.