Term: yardstick: a measure or standard used for comparison
Broader: measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Unrelated: interim overhaul: an overhaul between the regular times for overhauling
Broader: measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Unrelated: bombardment: the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays)
Broader: measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Unrelated: wolf spider: ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web
Broader: measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Unrelated: waratah: straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes
Broader: measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Unrelated: internal combustion: the combustion of fuel inside a cylinder (as in an internal-combustion engine)
Broader: measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Unrelated: tender: something that can be used as an official medium of payment
Broader: measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Unrelated: divorce court: a court having jurisdiction over the termination of marriage contracts
Broader: measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Unrelated: crown fire: a forest fire that advances with great speed jumping from crown to crown ahead of the ground fire
Broader: measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Unrelated: henbane: poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine
Broader: measure: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Unrelated: anagram: a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase