[countable] a standard, usually of quality or performance, that other things can be compared to基准；基准尺度◆Revenue per available room is the key benchmark in the hotels sector.每间可供入住房间的收入是酒店业的基准尺度。◆A performance benchmark has been established for the team.这支团队已建立了业绩基准。  ➡  best practice (Finance 金融) (also ˈbenchmark ˌindex) a set of share prices that are used to judge the performance of other shares基准（用于判断其他股票表现的一组股票价格）◆The FTSE 100 is London's benchmark index.英国富时 100 指数是伦敦的基准指数。 (IT 信息技术) a set of computer programs that can be used to measure what a computer can do and how fast it can do it基准（用于测试计算机性能的一套计算机程序）