Build a simple pendulum with string, a battery, and a yardstick for better understanding.
The Blackjack is sort of a yardstick for what a smartphone is.
"The publishers that are setting the ground rules right now are making higher C.P.M.'s," said Michael Greene, an analyst at Forrester Research, referring to the cost per thousand impressions, a yardstick for the value of an ad.
As a yardstick for determining whether a fuel economy improvement is worthwhile for a heavy truck, it can be very misleading, the researchers said.
In this way the theories of the form ZFC+LC, where LC is a large cardinal axiom, provide a yardstick for measuring the strength of theories.
Brazil's Climate Observatory has even offered its own ambitious targets, such as limiting emissions to one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year by 2030, as a yardstick for the government.
The bottom-up methods for energy benchmarking aim to derive a yardstick for energy performance based on a theoretical analysis of a building.
By liquidating its portfolio and turning it into real cash, it became a yardstick for the investment performance of a microfinance institution.At first sight, its returns look unexciting: just 6% annually, despite lots of risk.
And even though CRM relies on intrinsic motivation to be effective, the department leadership needs to clarify to all staff beforehand that CRM is not a noncommittal system but will serve as a yardstick for professional evaluation too.
It has become a yardstick for placing countries in the League of Nations and an index of its political stature.
