You use standard to describe things which are usual and normal. It was standard practice for untrained clerks to advise in serious cases such as murder
That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp
Document, established by consensus and approved by a recognized body, that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context EN 45020: 1998, 3 2 GD - Standards and Regulations
{i} model, criterion; norm, average; flag, banner; commodity which backs a monetary system
An accepted specification of something to which sites or employees must conform unless a deviation from the standard is documented and approved Note: Standards might apply to external industry standards and might include individual responsibilities, Eg : who will be held accountable for not meeting a standard
Standard samples are aliquots of calibration specimens containing predetermined quantities of the analyte The response of each standard, along with the standard's predetermined concentration, is used to construct a standard curve From this standard curve, sample concentrations can be computed using the response from the sample
conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers; "standard English" (American); "received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British)
* Something established as a basis of comparison in measuring or judging capacity, quantity, content, value, quality, etc ; a specified set of safety or performance qualities which a device or process must possess These must generally be demonstrated by a series of tests conducted under pre-determined conditions