The phrase "a form of standard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different types or variations of standards in a particular context, such as quality, measurement, or practices.
Example: "The new guidelines serve as a form of standard for evaluating employee performance across the organization."
Alternatives: "a type of standard" or "a variant of standard".
While similar subatomic properties are used by plants to turn sunlight into photosynthetic energy in a few million-billionths of a second, critics of D-Wave's method say it is not quantum computing at all, but a form of standard thermal behavior.
From this model, we derived the statistics for the relationship in question, and translated it into a Pearson's correlation coefficient to illustrate the degree of association between traits in a form of standard effect sizes [sensu [ 78]].
On the very first page of his book, The True Gold Standard, Lewis Lehrman advocates a return to a form of gold standard where, "…the United States dollar will be defined…as a certain weight unit of gold…" In other words, under Mr. Lehrman's proposed system, gold would once again be money.
Note that because we are using a finite-size system, we are appealing to a normal form of standard bifurcation, here, a transcritical bifurcation, because it embodies all that needs to be known about the 'critical' transition (Sornette, private communication).
Such a tool would represent a form of measurement gold standard.
We used a slightly modified form of standard definitions provided in a prior paper (Table 1) [14].
For example, as recently as the 1960s, most scholarly linguists believed African American Vernacular English to be a deficient, broken form of standard American English reflective of African Americans' lack of cognitive abilities.
That Friday, in a form of confrontation that is standard under French police procedure, Bouvier and Rybolovlev, with their lawyers and translators, came face to face.
This standard employed a form of coded modulation known as trellis-coded modulation, or TCM.
To live by a code or standard is a form of truth in action in the world.
Because standards are a form of technical infrastructure, they have considerable public good content.
