bench mark

1. 1.

   a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point

   Synonymsbenchmark

   Broaderreference point

Questions about bench mark

What does bench mark mean?

bench mark means "a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point".

What is another word for bench mark?

Close synonyms include benchmark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bench mark a common word?

bench mark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.