noun
baseline
an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared
In a sentence
Six example sentences with baseline, each labelled with its topic.
Before the program starts, each athlete runs a timed mile that becomes the baseline for every later test.
Fitness
Ice cores give scientists a baseline from before factories existed, so recent carbon readings actually mean something.
Environment
The team logged one quiet week of signups as a baseline, then launched the referral scheme on Monday.
Startups
The clinic takes a baseline scan before treatment begins so that any later change can be measured against it.
Medicine
Analysts set last year's earnings as the baseline, and every quarterly figure since is reported as a percentage of it.
Finance
Researchers record each participant's baseline mood before the test, since a bad morning would otherwise look like an effect.
Psychology
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