Standard

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Standard may refer to:

Flags

• any War flag or military standard
• Ensign, a distinguishing flag of a ship or a military unit
• Heraldic standard, a type of flag containing heraldic devices and used for personal identification
• historically any field sign
  • Vexilloid or "flag-like" field signs

Norm or requirement

Any norm, convention or requirement

• Breed standard (also called bench standard) in animal fancy and animal husbandry
• Technical standard, an established norm or requirement about technical systems
  • International standard, standards suitable for worldwide use
  • Open standard, a standard that is publicly available
  • Standards organization, an entity primarily concerned with maintaining standards
  • Standardization, the process of establishing technical standards
  • Standard Operating Procedure, a step-by-step instruction to achieve a desired result
• Standard (metrology), an object that bears a defined relationship to a unit of measure (length, mass, volume, electric potential, and others) used for calibration of measuring devices
• De facto standard, product or system with market dominance
• Internet standard, a specification ratified as an open standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force
• Learning Standards, standards applied to education content
• Standard of care, the degree of prudence and caution required of an individual who is under a duty of care
• Gold standard, a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold

Mathematics

• Standard language, a particular variety of a language that has been given either legal or quasi-legal status
• Standard algorithms, long-taught methods of computation such as long division
• Standard deviation, a statistical measure of variation
  • Standard score, a statistics term
• Standardized rate, a statistical measure of any rates in a population
• Standard Young tableaux, a type of combinatorial object

Military

• A type of battleship, first seen in the 1912 Nevada class battleship.
• Standard missile
• Standard operating procedure, an established method of accomplishing a task
• Defense standard

Music

• Standard (music), the most popular and enduring songs from a particular genre or style
  • Jazz standards
  • Pop standards
  • Blues standards
  • Adult standards, a radio format that includes jazz and pop standards
• Standards (Tortoise album)
• Standards (Lee Morgan album)
• Standards (Jarrett album)
• The Standard, an album by Take 6
• "Standards", a song by The Jam from the album This Is the Modern World
• The Standard (band), an American indie rock band

As a proper name

Toponymy

• Standard, Illinois, United States
• Standard City, Illinois, United States
• Standard, Alberta, Canada

Vehicles

Automotive

• Standard (1904 automobile) (1904-1906)
• Standard (1912 automobile) (1912-1923)
• Standard Six (1909-1910)
• Standard Steam Car (1920-1921)
• Standard Motor Company (1903-1963), an English car and aircraft manufacturer
• Standard (1911 automobile) (1911-1912)
• Standard (1933 automobile) (1933-1935, 1950-1954)
• Standard (Italian automobile) (1906-1908)
• Standard (Indian automobile) (1957-1987), mostly based on the British Standard cars (see above)
• Standard transmission, see Manual transmission

Aviation

• FAI Standard Class for glider competition
• Prue Standard, glider

Other businesses

• American Standard Companies, Inc., a global provider of air conditioning systems and services, bath and kitchen products, and vehicle control systems
• Standard Hotel, a hotel chain originating in Los Angeles
• Standard Oil (1863-1911), a large integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing organization
• Standard Talking Machine Company, an early twentieth century record label

Newspapers

• The Standard, a business newspaper in Hong Kong
• De Standaard, a Belgian newspaper
• Der Standard, an Austrian newspaper
• Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard, a Scottish newspaper
• The Standard (Kenya), a Kenyan newspaper
• The Standard (Argentina), an Argentinian newspaper published in Buenos Aires published from 1861 until 1959
• The Weekly Standard, an American neoconservative magazine, sometimes abbreviated as The Standard
• Toronto Standard, a Toronto newspaper
• Evening Standard, a London newspaper
• Standard (magazine), a defunct Serbian magazine
• St. Catharines Standard, a St. Catharines, Ontario, newspaper

Other

• Standard Baku, an Azeri association football team
• Standard cell, a building block for electronic integrated circuits
• Standard displacement, a naval term describing the weight and status of a warship
• Standard Liège, a Belgian association football team that is often abbreviated as Standard
• Standard solution (Chemistry) , a solution of known concentration.
• Standard (warez), rules for public release of pirated material

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• Weston standard cell, a laboratory voltage reference