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Noun
S: (n) standard, criterion, measure, touchstone (a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated) "the schools comply with federal standards"; "they set the measure for all subsequent work"
S: (n) benchmark (a standard by which something can be measured or judged) "his painting sets the benchmark of quality"
S: (n) earned run average, ERA ((baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched)
S: (n) grade point average, GPA (a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted)
S: (n) yardstick (a measure or standard used for comparison) "on what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?"
S: (n) medium of exchange, monetary system (anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region)
S: (n) change (money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency) "he got change for a twenty and used it to pay the taxi driver"
S: (n) change (the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due) "I paid with a twenty and pocketed the change"
S: (n) ready cash, cold cash, ready money (money in the form of cash that is readily available) "his wife was always a good source of ready cash"; "he paid cold cash for the TV set"
S: (n) hard currency (a currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value) "the countries agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency, replacing previous barter arrangements"; "Germany once had a solid economy, good fiscal and monetary policies, and a hard currency"
S: (n) logarithmic scale (scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers)
S: (n) Mercalli scale (a scale formerly used to describe the magnitude of an earthquake; an earthquake detected only by seismographs is a I and an earthquake that destroys all buildings is a XII)
S: (n) Mohs scale (a scale of hardness of solids; talc is 0 and diamond is 10; ordering is determined by which substance can scratch another substance)
S: (n) Richter scale (a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 formerly used to express the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of the size of seismograph oscillations)
S: (n) moment magnitude scale (a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 (a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake)
S: (n) Fahrenheit scale (a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 32 degrees and the boiling point of water a 212 degrees)
S: (n) Kelvin scale, absolute scale (a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees)
S: (n) Rankine scale (a scale of absolute temperature in Fahrenheit degrees; the freezing point of water is 491.69 degrees and the boiling point of water is 671.69 degrees)
S: (n) Reaumur scale (a temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees)
S: (n) sliding scale (a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index)
S: (n) gauge, standard of measurement (accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared)
S: (n) baseline (an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared) "the established a baseline for the budget"
S: (n) norm (a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical) "the current middle-class norm of two children per family"