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baseline

[beys-lahyn]

noun Also, base line.

Baseball. the area between bases within which a base runner must keep when running from one base to another.

Tennis. the line at each end of a tennis court, parallel to the net, that marks the in-bounds limit of play.

(in perspective drawing) a horizontal line in the immediate foreground formed by the intersection of the ground plane and the picture plane.

a basic standard or level; guideline: to establish a baseline for future studies.

a specific value or values that can serve as a comparison or control.

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Typography. the imaginary line on which the bottoms of primary letters align.

Surveying. See under triangulation (def. 1).

Electronics. a horizontal or vertical line formed on the face of a cathode-ray tube by the sweep of the scanning dot.

Naval Architecture. a line on the body plan or sheer plan of a hull, representing a horizontal reference plane for vertical dimensions.

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adjective

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basic or essential.

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Baseline is always a great word to know.

So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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Origin:
1740–50; base¹ + line¹

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The researchers found that students in the follow-up sample had higher debt levels than the baseline sample had reported.

The authors calculated the additional loss each subject suffered in response to each price frame compared with the baseline case.

Conservation management depends on adequate baseline knowledge, the application of relevant.

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The researchers found that students in the follow-up sample had higher debt levels than the baseline sample had reported.

The authors calculated the additional loss each subject suffered in response to each price frame compared with the baseline case.

Conservation management depends on adequate baseline knowledge, the application of relevant.

With every download of data, the time baseline of the light curves is extended.

With incentives, it's more expensive than solar but can provide baseline power and run data.

Each accomplishment only lifts one up to a new baseline of expectations.

It also accounts for baseline characteristics that differ from person to person.

Take a star's position on dates separated by half a year, and you get the widest possible baseline.

The baseline species counts established by the census have already come in handy.

Both the baseline and the dynamic profiling will be based on the response to a series of questions.

Carlson's suggestion for baseline grants is one of many solutions that have been considered.

Its main scientific use at the moment is in clinical trials as a baseline for comparison with another treatment.

Scientists had virtually no baseline information on the wildlife in the area.

The baseline was the volume of a normal conversation.

At their baseline state, migratory birds are already marvels of evolution.

The baseline should be professional, pleasant interaction on your part.

However, the offer they are using as a baseline was essentially a management wish list, which had no chance of being accepted.

His initial field data provided critical baseline information about wildlife populations, distribution, and the war's impact.

Gun-toting government agents enforced the legislated baseline of mediocrity.

So-called information gain and travel utility increase the farther you get from home and from your baseline comfort level.

There is no indication of baseline changes in unemployment for other age groups during the same period.

So, we're visiting new areas and getting that baseline of the health and the condition and extent of the coral reefs.

But doing so required having a perfect model to establish a baseline.

Such a baseline reading could be gathered at the worker's initial doctor's examination.

But some currency has to serve as the baseline for the scale to be meaningful.

Knowing the location of the penguins provides a baseline for monitoring their response to environmental change.

The obese rats in the new study took two weeks to regain their baseline density of receptors.

Rural homes will provide a historical baseline of the critters our recent ancestors lived around.

Conventional medicine benefits less from this effect because of the higher baseline expectation that it is going to work.

Because they didn't, they have no baseline against which to compare current readings.

Only a baseline contract with the jobber, and the jobber always wins at the year-end round-up.

The first phase of today's procedure is a baseline interval that maps the activity of my brain at rest.

It is not clear however, whether this implies a major departure from the baseline.

The crosscutting aspect of my photo work has been used to help establish baseline information for science.

Both teams have been doing baseline cognitive tests of each player prior to the start of each season.

Additionally, an availability baseline that was established when your application was small may not be relevant any more.

There's always a certain amount of baseline efficiency and productivity growth.

Both experimental conditions resulted in significantly more successes than did the baseline condition.

For me, the human being must be the baseline of the design and anything else must be add-ons.

Based on baseline forecasts alone, more monetary stimulus is easily justified.

In clinical trials, patients treated with antidepressants do show substantial improvement from baseline.

Ginsberg hopes to establish a technical baseline against which to compare subsequent testing.

But it doesn't clearly show the baseline population from.

There's also a histogram which will control the baseline for the curves in our next step.

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baseline (ˈbeɪsˌlaɪn)

—n
1.	surveying a measured line through a survey area from which triangulations are made
2.	an imaginary line, standard of value, etc, by which things are measured or compared
3.	a line at each end of a tennis court that marks the limit of play

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Word Origin & History

baseline

1750, originally in surveying, from base (n.) + line (n.). Baseline estimate in use by 1983.

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