All touchstone synonyms

noun touchstone

• lodestar — a star that shows the way.
• model — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
• baseline — The baseline of a tennis, badminton, or basketball court is one of the lines at each end of the court that mark the limits of play.
• measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• canon — A canon is a member of the clergy who is on the staff of a cathedral.
• finals — pertaining to or coming at the end; last in place, order, or time: the final meeting of the year.
• criterion — A criterion is a factor on which you judge or decide something.
• comp — Comp is short for compensation.
• gauge — to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
• benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
• norm — a standard, model, or pattern.
• yardstick — a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.
• blue book — A blue book is an official government report or register of statistics.
• decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici