benchmarking

American  

[bench-mahr-king] / ˈbɛntʃˌmɑr kɪŋ /

noun

1. the act or practice of measuring something against a standard, or of testing it in order to develop such a standard.

   The system measures nursing outcomes on a numerical scale, facilitating the benchmarking of nursing practices across facilities and jurisdictions.

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Etymology

Origin of benchmarking

First recorded in 1965–70; benchmark ( def. ) + -ing ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Google has shaken up the artificial-intelligence race by launching its Gemini 3 AI model last month and it made a splash, winning rave reviews from users and analysts and beating OpenAI’s latest GPT 5.1 on benchmarking tests.

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Google’s Gemini 3 AI model has surpassed OpenAI’s GPT 5.1 in benchmarking tests, leading OpenAI to declare a “code red” to improve ChatGPT.

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Google launched its Gemini 3 AI model last month and it made a splash, winning rave reviews from users and analysts and beating OpenAI’s latest GPT 5.1 on benchmarking tests.

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Its release in August came as something of a disappointment, with benchmarking tests suggesting GPT-5 was only mildly better than existing rivals from Google and Elon Musk’s xAI.

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That was much weaker than the 50,000 jobs economists expected to see added in September, a divergence that was likely because ADP conducted an annual preliminary benchmarking of its payroll data.

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