The laboratory maintains a strict standard of cleanliness, requiring all equipment to be sterilized before each experiment.
实验室保持严格的清洁标准，要求每次实验前对所有设备进行消毒。
A city's traffic engineers found that intersections with raised, textured crosswalks had fewer pedestrian injuries than similar intersections with standard flat, painted crosswalks, even though both types of intersections had comparable pedestrian foot traffic.
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A researcher studying an isolated fishing community found that residents under the age of 30 could identify only about a quarter as many traditional knot-tying techniques as residents over 65, even though both groups had grown up fishing in the same waters and were considered experienced by community standards.
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When a popular rideshare app introduced a lower-cost carpooling option, requests for its standard, non-shared rides dropped noticeably in the weeks that followed, but total combined ride requests across both options remained roughly the same as before the carpooling option was introduced.
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Which choice best defines “standard”?
A — A level of quality or norm. “standard” means a level of quality or norm.
Which word means “a level of quality or norm”?
A — standard. “standard” means a level of quality or norm.
standard — a level of quality or norm. In Chinese: 标准，规范.
standard is pronounced /ˈstændərd/.
The laboratory maintains a strict standard of cleanliness, requiring all equipment to be sterilized before each experiment. (实验室保持严格的清洁标准，要求每次实验前对所有设备进行消毒。)
benchmark, criterion, norm — all close in meaning to standard (a level of quality or norm).
exception, deviation — each the opposite of standard (a level of quality or norm).
Yes. standard is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.