benchmarking

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US/ˈbɛnt͡ʃmɑɹkɪŋ/

noun

A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

Less commonScrabble 26

Meanings

nounbenchmarking (plural benchmarkings)

plural benchmarkings

  1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.
    1 more example

    Diversity profiles may, therefore, become a valuable bioinformatical tool for technological benchmarking and normalization of immune repertoire sequencing in the future, enabling cross-laboratory comparisons and meta-analyses, which would be highly valuable in advancing the development of next-generation immunogenomics diagnostics.

    2015 May 28, Victor Greiff et al., “A bioinformatic framework for immune repertoire diversity profiling enables detection of immunological status”, in Genome Medicine, volume 7, →DOI
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of benchmark
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