Standard may refer to:
Flags
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- 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
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, used to define the derivative of a 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, a specification used to help achieve standardization objectives by the U.S. Department of Defense
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, blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition
- 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 (Take 6 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 (Scandal 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 (Tommy Flanagan album), a 1980 album by The Super Jazz Trio
- Standard (Witness album), a gospel music album by Witness
- Standards (Into It. Over It. album)
- Standards (Seal album), a 2017 album by Seal
- The Standards, a 2013 studio album by Gloria Estefan
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
- The Standard (Zimbabwe), a weekly newspaper in Zimbabwe
Places
United States
- Standard, Illinois
- Standard City, Illinois
- Standard, California
- Standard, Indiana
- Standard, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
- Standard, Vernon Parish, Louisiana
- Standard, West Virginia
Other
- Standard, Alberta, Canada
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) (1904â€"1906), an American automobile
- Standard (1912 automobile) (1912â€"1923), an American automobile manufactured in Butler, Pennsylvania
- Standard Six (1909â€"1910), an American automobile manufactured in St Louis, Missouri
- Standard Steam Car (1920â€"1921), an American steam car manufactured by the Standard Engineering Company of St Louis, Missouri
- Standard Motor Company (1903â€"1963), an English car and aircraft manufacturer
- Standard (1911 automobile) (1911â€"1912), a German automobile
- Standard (1933 automobile) (1933â€"1935, 1950â€"1954), an automobile, produced from 1933 to 1935 by Standard Fahrzeugfabrik of Ludwigsburg, Germany
- Standard (Italian automobile) (1906â€"1908), an Italian automobile manufactured by the Fabbrica Automobili Standard of Torino
- Standard (Indian automobile) (1957â€"1987), mostly based on the British Standard cars
- Standard Motor Products, a manufacturer and distributor of aftermarket automotive parts
- Standard transmission, a type of transmission used in motor vehicles
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 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 (1863â€"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, 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
- The Standard (TV series), a television series
- Standard (tree), a type of fruit tree form
- Standard (unit), a US unit of volume for stacked firewood
- The Standard, Copenhagen, a restaurant complex in central Copenhagen, Denmark
- Standards (software)
See also
- Canon (disambiguation)
- Industry standard (disambiguation)
- National standards (disambiguation)
- Standart (disambiguation)
- STD (disambiguation)
- The Standard (disambiguation)
- Usual (disambiguation)