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Standard of comparison
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baseline
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n. an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared; "the established a baseline for the budget" the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line [syn: service line ...
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Baseline budgeting is an accounting method the United States Federal Government uses to develop a budget for future years. Baseline budgeting uses current spending levels as the "baseline" for establishing future funding requirements and assumes future ...
Usage examples of baseline.
Tom told you to make sure that Robo Boy heard that Leyster and Salley would be leading the first Baseline expedition.
As they went, each released a swarm of subsatellites like golden butterflies, expanding their observation baseline.
I would understand what the other blokes in the troop were talking about when they mentioned riggers, risers, brake lines, baselines, or flare.
Numerous former inspectors have indicated that they believe an accurate baseline could require twelve to eighteen months to establish.
As noted above, there is a consensus among American, British, Swedish, Dutch, and even French former inspectors that it would require twelve to eighteen months just to establish a baseline, let alone actually conduct inspections.
In this dream, which every now and then still recurs, I am standing publicly at the baseline of a gargantuan tennis court.
Standing at the baseline, or walking back to the baseline, to either serve or receive, one of the two, I heard the client.
The A-players have formed those ragged rows behind the baseline again, and Schtitt paces back and forth.
Inside is smell of heaters, echo, being jammed in together, tarp is overdose to baseline, not enough of room, bells inside clubs which ring the hour loudly to distract, clunk of machines vomiting sweet cola for coins.
He sliced two balls soft so they ended their roll down near the opposite baseline, where Hal could use them to serve.
Hal chipped his balls out along the baseline and made some small adjustments in his cross-hatched strings as he walked around for the side-change.
Stice stood in the middle of the baseline awaiting pace and was helpless when Hal shortened the stroke and dribbled it at an angle cross-court, barely clearing the net and distorted with backspin and falling into the half-meter of fair space the acuteness of the angle allowed.
Their exit vector was masked by the watchship static bomb, and without a baseline heat-dump profile for their hulls we can only make a guess as to how far they came.
Very Long Baseline Array, though, picking out details a few kilometers in size.
There was a blur, a crack, and he was strolling off along the baseline, nodding graciously to his fans.