Standard

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Standard may refer to:

Flags

Any war flag or other military standard
Colours, standards and guidons
Ensign, a distinguishing flag of a ship or a military unit
Heraldic standard, a type of flag containing heraldic devices and used for personal identification
Historically any field sign
- Vexilloid or "flag-like" field signs

Breed standard (also called bench standard), in animal fancy and animal husbandry
Technical standard, an established norm or requirement about technical systems
- International standard, standards suitable for worldwide use
- Open standard, a standard that is publicly available
- Standards organization, an entity primarily concerned with maintaining standards
- Standardization, the process of establishing technical standards
- Standard operating procedure, a step-by-step instruction to achieve a desired result
Standard (metrology), an object that bears a defined relationship to a unit of measure used for calibration of measuring devices
De facto standard, product or system with market dominance
Internet Standard, a specification ratified as an open standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force
Learning standards, standards applied to education content
Standard of care, the degree of prudence and caution required of an individual who is under a duty of care
Gold standard, a monetary system based on gold; also used metaphorically for the best of several options, against which the others are measured
Standard language, a particular variety of a language that has been given either legal or quasi-legal status
Unit of measure for softwood timber; see Petrograd Standard

Standard algorithms, long-taught methods of computation such as long division
Standard deviation, a statistical measure of variation
- Standard score, a statistics term
Standardized rate, a statistical measure of any rates in a population
Standard Young tableaux, a type of combinatorial object
Standard part function

Standard (music), the most popular and enduring songs from a particular genre or style
- Jazz standards, musical compositions which are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners
- Pop standards, particularly the songs comprising the Great American Songbook
- List of blues standards
- Adult standards, a radio format that includes pop standards
Standards (Tortoise album), the fourth album by the American post-rock band Tortoise
Standards (Lee Morgan album), a 1998 album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan released on the Blue Note label
Standards (Jarrett album), a two-volume set of jazz albums released by the Keith Jarrett trio in 1983
Standards (Ken Vandermark album), 1995
Standards (Sonny Clark album), 1998
The Standard (album), a 2008 album by Take 6
"Standards", a song by The Jam from the album This Is the Modern World
Standards, music album by Blaggards
The Standard (band), an American indie rock band
The Standard, a rap trio formed by Nas, Common and Q-Tip
Standard (album), the fifth studio album by Japanese pop rock band, Scandal
"Standard" (The View song), a song by The View
Standards (Bernie Worrell album), solo album by former Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell
Standards (Lloyd Cole album), a 2013 rock album by Lloyd Cole released

The Standard (Hong Kong), a business newspaper in Hong Kong
Der Standard, an Austrian newspaper
Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard, a Scottish newspaper
Mornington Standard, a newspaper of Frankston, Victoria
The Standard (Kenya), a Kenyan newspaper
The Weekly Standard, an American neoconservative magazine, sometimes abbreviated as The Standard
Toronto Standard, a Toronto newspaper
London Evening Standard, a London newspaper often referred to as "The Standard"
Standard (magazine), a defunct Serbian magazine
St. Catharines Standard, a St. Catharines, Ontario, newspaper

FK Standard Sumgayit, a former Azeri association football team
Standard Liège, a Belgian association football team that is often abbreviated as Standard

Standard (1904 automobile) (1904–1906), an American automobile
Standard (1912 automobile) (1912–1923), an American automobile manufactured in Butler, Pennsylvania
Standard Six (1909–1910), an American automobile manufactured in St Louis, Missouri
Standard Steam Car (1920–1921), an American steam car manufactured by the Standard Engineering Company of St Louis, Missouri
Standard Motor Company (1903–1963), an English car and aircraft manufacturer
Standard (1911 automobile) (1911–1912), a German automobile
Standard (1933 automobile) (1933–1935, 1950–1954), an automobile, produced from 1933 to 1935 by Standard Fahrzeugfabrik of Ludwigsburg, Germany
Standard (Italian automobile) (1906–1908), an Italian automobile manufactured by the Fabbrica Automobili Standard of Torino
Standard (Indian automobile) (1957–1987), mostly based on the British Standard cars
Standard transmission, a type of transmission used in motor vehicles

American Standard Companies, a global provider of air conditioning systems and services, bath and kitchen products, and vehicle control systems
Standard Bank, one of South Africa's largest financial operators
Standard Glass and Paint Company Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Iowa
Standard Hotel, a hotel chain originating in Los Angeles
Standard Insurance Company, an American insurance and financial company.
Standard Oil (1863–1911), a large integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing organization
Standard Talking Machine Company, an early twentieth century record label
The Standard, East Village, a hotel in New York City
The Standard, High Line, a hotel in New York City

Standard cell, a voltage reference, or a building block for electronic integrated circuits
Standard displacement, a naval term describing the weight and status of a warship
Standard solution, in chemistry, a solution of known concentration
Standard (typeface)
Standard (warez), rules for unauthorized public release of copyrighted material
Coppice with standards, the retention of some mature trees in a wood mainly of trees which are coppiced