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The law applies to Federal agencies, but as a standard is a good thing to keep in mind whenever developing for the web: nothing in Section 508 requires making anything more difficult to use for any user and making information available to more users simply increases our user base.

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  1. noun A flag, banner, or ensign, especially:
  2. noun The ensign of a chief of state, nation, or city.
  3. noun A long, tapering flag bearing heraldic devices distinctive of a person or corporation.
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  • The law applies to Federal agencies, but as a standard is a good thing to keep in mind whenever developing for the web: nothing in Section 508 requires making anything more difficult to use for any user and making information available to more users simply increases our user base. —  Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community
  • All other vendors choose a simpler route from the outset by saying that their product IS BASED on the 'open standard,' which already implies that the standard is a foundation ONLY on which any number of proprietary extensions were implemented. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The body we have taken as a standard is the distillate from the same weight of cane sugar. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891
  • This kind of standard has been viewed with favor by many monetary authorities, and despite the administrative difficulties ways may yet be found for putting it into practice After determining the tabular standard, the actual regulation of the quantity of money to make prices conform to the standard might be accomplished in one of several ways. —  Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II
  • Par of exchange between two countries using the same metal as a standard is the number of units of the standard coin of the one country that contains the same amount of fine metal as the standard coin of the other country. —  Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II
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  1. Middle English, from Old French estandard, rallying place, probably from Frankish *standhard : *standan, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots + *hard, fast, hard; see kar- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also standerd; from Middle English standard, standerd, stondard, from late Anglo-Saxon standard (= Middle Dutch standaerd, Dutch standaard = Middle Low German stanthart, Low German standare = Middle High German standert, stanthart, German standarte (perhaps from Italian) = Swedish standar = Danish standart), from Old French estandart, estendard, an ensign, standard, a point of rallying, French étendard, an ensign, standard, flag, = Provencal estandard, estandart = Spanish estandarte = Italian stendardo, an ensign, standard (cf. Old French estandal, estandeille, standale = Italian stendale, an ensign); Middle Latin standardum, an ensign, standard (cf. standardus, a stronghold, a receptacle of water): (a) either from Old High German stantan (Middle High German standen), stand, = English stand, etc., + -art, or (b) from Middle Latin *stendere (Italian stendere = Old French estendre, etc.), from Latin extendere, spread out, extend: see extend. The connection with stand is certain in the other uses: see standard, standard.
  2. from Middle English *standard, from Old French estandart, estendard, also (Anglo-French) estander, Middle Latin (Anglo-Latin) standardum, standard of weight and measure; apparently a particular use in England of Old French estandart, etc., an ensign, standard, as ‘that to which one turns,’ or, as in standard, ‘that which is set up’: see standard, standard.
  3. Early modern English also standerd, standert; from Middle English *standard (?), from Middle Dutch standaerd, a post, pillar, column, mill-post, trophy (cf. Old French estandart, a kind of torch, from D.); a variant, conformed to standaerd, an ensign, etc., of stander, a post, mill-post, etc.: see stander. The English standard is thus a variant of stander, with various senses, mostly modern. It has been more or less confused with standard and standard.
 

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