baseline has definitions from the fields of baseball,tennis
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[ noun ] an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared

Examples

"the established a baseline for the budget"

Used in print

(Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)

On_the_other_hand , even when the binomial model does not describe well the physical_phenomenon being studied , the binomial model may still be used as a baseline for comparative purposes ; that_is , we may discuss the phenomenon in_terms_of its departures from the binomial model .

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standard

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[ noun ] (tennis) the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line

Synonyms

service_line

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line

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

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line

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