BASELINE

baseline

(noun) the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases

baseline

(noun) an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared; “the established a baseline for the budget”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

baseline (plural baselines)

A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.

A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.

(typography) A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.

Coordinate terms: beardline, midline, capline, topline

(tennis) The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play.

(engineering) A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.

Hypernyms

• line

Verb

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

(engineering, computing) To provide a baseline for measurement.

(tennis) To play from the baseline.

Anagrams

• Balinese, sabeline

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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