baseline

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[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• Homophones: bassline

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[edit] Etymology

base +‎ line

[edit] Noun

baseline (plural baselines)

1. A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.
2. A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.
3. (typography) A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.
4. (tennis) The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play.
5. (engineering) A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.

[edit] Derived terms

• baseline driver
• baseline game
• baseliner

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to baseline (third-person singular simple present baselines, present participle baselining, simple past and past participle baselined)

1. (engineering, computing) To provide a baseline for measurement.
   • 1993, M.M. Mitchell et al., “Residual Feed Cracking Catalysts”, in Magee & Mitchell eds., Fluid Catalytic Cracking^[1], ISBN 0444890378, page 320:

     Finally, the test was baselined by evaluating the best and poorest catalysts of their respective types by this protocol.

2. (tennis) To play from the baseline.
   • 2002, Susan Orlean, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup^[2], ISBN 0375758631, page 260:

     By the time Maggie, who is eight years younger than Manuela, started playing, baselining was no longer enough to win points, so she learned to move around the court more …

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