Yardsticks

noun

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Noun

1
plural of yardstick form-of, plural

Synonyms

barometer basis benchmark benchmark canon check

Example

"As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'."

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