SMART

See also: smart, Smart, smärt, and S.M.A.R.T.

English

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SMART

Wikipedia

Proper noun

SMART

1. Acronym of International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers.

Noun

SMART (uncountable)

1. (computer hardware) Acronym of self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology; also S.M.A.R.T.: a monitoring system included in computer HDDs and SSDs in order to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware failures.

Adjective

SMART (not comparable)

1. (mnemonic) An acronym for remembering desirable characteristics for goal-setting: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timebound. (See SMART criteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )

   Antonym: VAPID

   • 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 27 September 2022:

     Over time, I noticed various exercises I did with Woebot rubbing off in my daily life. Woebot taught me how to set SMART goals — specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-limited.

See also

• DUMB
• FAST
• HARD
• SMARTER

Anagrams

• armts., trams, MSTAR, tarms, marts, stram