Standard
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Standard can refer to:
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[edit] Standardization
Standardization is the process of establishing a technical standard among competing entities. Specific usage may apply to:
- Frequency standard, used for calibrating oscillators;
- International standard;
- Internet standard, officially ratified by the IETF;
- Open standard;
- Standard (warez);
- Standard algorithms;
- Standard solution, a preparation containing a known concentration of a specified substance;
- Standards organization.
From a modern economics point of view, standardization process starts with a social problem knowed as "coordenation dilema". Standards, as "voluntary norms", serve to falicitate the resolution of coordination dilemmas and realize mutual gains; then standard refer also to a kind of social dilemma solution.
[edit] Newspapers
- The Standard, a business newspaper in Hong Kong
- De Standaard, a Belgian newspaper
- Der Standard, an Austrian newspaper
- The Standard (Kenya), a Kenyan newspaper
- The Weekly Standard, an American neoconservative magazine, is sometimes abbreviated as The Standard
- Evening Standard, a London newspaper
[edit] Music
- Standard (music): Jazz standards, Pop standards, and Blues standards
- The Standard (band), a band
- Standards (album), a 2001 album by the band Tortoise
- Standards (Blaggards album), a 2005 album by the band Blaggards
[edit] Military, Weapons and War
- standard (flag) flag flown in battle
- an ensign
- 25 m Standard Pistol, an Olympic shooting event
- Standard type battleship, used in the US Navy, a run of battleships with homogenous handling characteristics beginning with the 1912 Nevada class battleship and ending with the cancelled South Dakota (BB-49) class battleship
- Standard missile
- The Medina standard or Yamashita Standard, names for the doctrine of command responsibility in cases of war crimes
[edit] Location
[edit] Company
- Standard Oil (1863-1911), was a large integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing organization
- Standard Motor Company (1903-1963), an English car and aircraft manufacturer
- American Standard Companies, Inc. (NYSE: ASD)(known as Ideal Standard in the UK) is a global provider of air conditioning systems and services, bath & kitchen products and vehicle control systems.
- American Standard, a brand of American Standard Companies Inc.
[edit] Sports
- 25 m Standard Pistol, an Olympic shooting event
- Royal Standard de Liège, a Belgian soccer team that is often abbreviated as Standard
[edit] Other
- in automobiles, another name for Manual transmission
- in landscaping, shrubs trained into a single-trunked tree shape
