Definitions for baseline

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baseline base·line

Spelling: [beys-lahyn]

IPA: /ˈbeɪsˌlaɪn/

Baseline is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 352 anagrams from letters in baseline (abeeilns).

Definitions for baseline

noun

1. Baseball. the area between bases within which a base runner must keep when running from one base to another.
2. Tennis. the line at each end of a tennis court, parallel to the net, that marks the in-bounds limit of play.
3. (in perspective drawing) a horizontal line in the immediate foreground formed by the intersection of the ground plane and the picture plane.
4. a basic standard or level; guideline:
5. a specific value or values that can serve as a comparison or control.
6. Typography. the imaginary line on which the bottoms of primary letters align.
7. Surveying. See under triangulation (def 1).
8. Electronics. a horizontal or vertical line formed on the face of a cathode-ray tube by the sweep of the scanning dot.
9. Naval Architecture. a line on the body plan or sheer plan of a hull, representing a horizontal reference plane for vertical dimensions.

adjective

1. basic or essential.

Origin of baseline

First recorded in 1740-50; base¹ + line¹

Examples for baseline

Women have learned to operate with a baseline level of fear, one that dips or peaks depending on our surroundings.

A system to ensure that providers have a baseline competency in the areas where they choose to practice makes sense to me.

The crescent rests on a baseline formed by the slowly-proceeding line of women, children, and baggage-horses.

We can aim at an economy that makes dignity and security a baseline and lets people cut their paths from there.

“There is a baseline agreement when it comes to campus rape: the current system is failing these students,” she added.

Anyway, he knocked it straight down the third baseline and fooled the Journals rivals, for their fielders were not on duty.

The baseline question, as it so often is in politics these days, is about emotional resistance.

On the 17th a baseline was laid down on the plateau, and Blake was able to commence his survey of the island.

Meanwhile his baseline had been extended twenty miles to the westto near Noyon.

With two tracers, separated on a baseline of a few million kilometers, we can plot position closely.