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Standard may refer to:

• Standards (software)

• De facto standard | ''De facto'' standard, product or system with market dominance
• Gold standard, a monetary system based on gold; also used metaphorically for the best of several options, against which the others are measured
• Internet Standard, a specification ratified as an open standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Learning standards, standards applied to education content
• Standard language, a particular variety of a language accepted as the institutionalized norm in a community
• Standard of care, the degree of prudence and caution required of an individual who is under a duty of care

• 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
  • Standard operating procedure (SOP), a step-by-step instruction to achieve a desired result
  • Standardization, the process of establishing technical standards
  • Standards organization, an entity primarily concerned with maintaining standards

• Standard algorithms, long-taught methods of computation such as long division
• Standard deviation, a statistical measure of variation
  • Standard score, a statistics term
• Standard part function, used to define the derivative of a function
• Standardized rate, a statistical measure of any rates in a population

• Standard operating procedure (SOP), an established method of accomplishing a task
• United States Military Standard, a specification used to help achieve standardization objectives by the U.S. Department of Defense

• Industry standard (disambiguation)
• National standards (disambiguation)