Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A line serving as a basis, as for measurement, calculation, or location.
- noun Something, such as a set of data, used as a basis for comparison or as a control in a study.
- noun A starting point.
- noun Baseball The base path.
- noun The boundary line at either end of a court, as in basketball or tennis.
- noun The area near this boundary line.
- noun A style of play in tennis in which the player remains near the baseline and rarely approaches the net.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared.
- noun the back line at each end of a tennis court.
- noun (Baseball) the lines between bases on a baseball field along which a baseball player must run while running the bases.
- noun a measurement that represents the value of a physical quantity (such as a voltage, or a level of radioactivity) in the absence of effects from other variables in a measurement, test or experiment; a control value.
- noun any horizontal line in a plot, graph, or diagram, or on a visual display in an electronic device, used as a reference point to which other values are referred.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
line that is abase formeasurement or forconstruction . - noun A
datum used as thebasis forcalculation or forcomparison . - noun typography A line used as the basis for the
alignment ofglyphs . - noun tennis The line at the
farthest ends of thecourt indicating theboundary of the area of play. - noun engineering A
configuration ofsoftware ,hardware , or aprocess that isestablished anddocumented as a point ofreference . - verb engineering, computing To provide a baseline for measurement.
- verb tennis To play from the baseline.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases
- noun an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared
- noun the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line
Etymologies
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Examples
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TODD: John Alterman says at the very least the Iraq Study Group's report has become what he calls the baseline for all future discussions about Iraq.
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TODD: Jon Alterman says, at the very least, the Iraq Study Group's report has become what he calls the baseline for all future discussions about Iraq.
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Giving him the baseline is a no-no but I didn't want to get in the middle.
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What they hope to do is build what they call a baseline of information from these previously monitored sites and perhaps replace some of that monitoring equipment.
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And then they have to go through a lot of procedures, setting up an operation, beginning what they call a baseline to -- of inspections to look at, you know, Saddam Hussein, what's happened in the last four years since weapons inspectors left.
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They're going to check that monitoring equipment, try and form what they call a baseline, figure out what it is Iraq has been doing over the last four years -- Paula.
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The review went beyond a certain baseline in tone, while the relationship was beyond a certain baseline in involvement (to the extent that the ethical questions are as much about recusement as disclosure).
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The baseline is the 2006 figures of 12.4 million metric tons CO2 equivalent.
Eco Libris: Book Industry Announces Carbon Reducion Goals 2009
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But if the baseline is that the evil Cheney-Bush administration is lying to us, that they went beyond even what the evil John Yoo memos said waslegal
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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However, this does not change the fact that the news and the GOPers are shouting about 8.5% and 9.0% as though baseline is an actual 0.0%.
reesetee commented on the word baseline
In shipbuilding, a line on the body plan or sheer plan of a hull, representing a horizontal reference plane for vertical dimensions.
August 21, 2009