Standard

Standard may refer to:

Flags

• any war flag or 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

Norm or requirement

Further information: canon (basic principle)

Any norm, convention or requirement

• 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

Mathematics

• 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

Military

• A type of battleship, first seen in the 1912 Nevada-class battleship.
• Standard Missile
• Standard operating procedure, an established method of accomplishing a task
• United States Military Standard

Music

• 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

Newspapers

• 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

Places

• Standard, Illinois, United States
• Standard City, Illinois, United States
• Standard, Alberta, Canada
• Standard, California, United States
• Standard, Indiana, United States
• Standard, Louisiana (disambiguation), several places, United States
• Standard, West Virginia, United States

Sports

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

Vehicles

Automotive

• Standard (1904 automobile) (1904–1906), an American automobile manufactured between 1904 and around 1908
• Standard (1912 automobile) (1912–1923), an American automobile manufactured in Butler, Pennsylvania from 1912 until 1923
• Standard Six (1909–1910), an American automobile manufactured in St
• Standard Steam Car (1920–1921), an American steam car manufactured by the Standard Engineering Company of St Louis, Missouri from 1920 until 1921
• Standard Motor Company (1903–1963), an English car and aircraft manufacturer
• Standard (1911 automobile) (1911–1912), a German automobile manufactured between 1911 and 1912
• 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 from 1906 until 1908 by the Fabbrica Automobili Standard of Torino
• Standard (Indian automobile) (1957–1987), mostly based on the British Standard cars (see above)
• Standard transmission, a type of transmission used in motor vehicle applications

Aviation

• FAI Standard Class for glider competition
• Prue Standard, glider

Other businesses

• American Standard Companies, a global provider of air conditioning systems and services, bath and kitchen products, and vehicle control systems
• 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

Other

• 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 (Chemistry), a solution of known concentration
• Standard (typeface)
• Standard (warez), rules for public release of pirated material

See also

• STD (disambiguation)
• The Standard (disambiguation)
• Canon (disambiguation)
• Industry standard (disambiguation)
• National standards (disambiguation)
• Usual (disambiguation)