on of a hardware or software component, resulting from international, national, or industrial
agreement. [Computer and Information Sciences] 
n., An acceptable level or criterion according to which something is compared, measured, or judged. Also refers to an amount,
extent, quality, pattern, criterion, etc., fixed by usage or convention or established as the norm by prevailing authority, as in the
standard size of a catalog card used by libraries prior to the development of machine-readable cataloging. A s