The names centiare, decare and hectare are derived by adding the standard metric prefixes to the original base unit of area, the are.

Its callsign is 2NEW, the 2 being a standard prefix for stations in New South Wales, and NEW short for Newcastle.

Its callsign, 2NUR, stands for Newcastle University Radio, and the 2 is a standard prefix for radio stations in New South Wales.

It is named for its passage from the chin ("genio-" is a standard prefix for "chin") to the hyoid bone.

"Nya" (née ya) meaning "daughter of", is the standard prefix used for female names.

SN, for SuperNova, is a standard prefix.

Yobi-, an IEC standard prefix.

Since flash memory is generally produced in capacities that are multiples of powers of 2, IEC standard binary prefixes are used throughout this article.

Why, then, don't we use the standard prefixes that turn around a word's meaning, like in- or un-?

Although the common standard prefixes super and ultra do not indicate specific modifiers to base standard resolutions, several others do: