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English

Etymology

base +? line

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?sla?n/
• Homophone: bassline

Noun

baseline (plural baselines)

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

2. A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.
3. (typography) A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.

   Coordinate terms: beardline, midline, capline, topline

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

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

Hypernyms

• line

Derived terms

• baselined
• baseliner

Related terms

• baseline driver
• baseline game

Translations

Verb

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

1. (engineering, computing) To provide a baseline for measurement.
2. (tennis) To play from the baseline.

Further reading

• baseline (typography) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• baseline (configuration management) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• baseline (medicine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• baseline (surveying) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Balinese, sabeline

English

Etymology

From bench +? mark. Originally (attested circa 1842) a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a "bench" (from 19th century land surveying jargon, meaning a type of bracket), to mount measuring equipment. Figurative sense attested circa 1884.

Noun

benchmark (plural benchmarks)

1. A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
   • 2013, Marina Hyde, Is the pope Catholic? (in The Guardian, 20 September 2013)[1]

     Is the pope Catholic? Forgive the posing of a question that is usually rhetorical, the absolute benchmark of certainty, and traditionally regarded as even more settled than the one pertaining to the lavatorial arrangements of bears.

2. A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
3. (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.

Translations

Verb

benchmark (third-person singular simple present benchmarks, present participle benchmarking, simple past and past participle benchmarked)

1. (transitive) To measure the performance or quality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
   1. (intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
   2. (transitive, intransitive, followed be against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.

Derived terms

• benchmarketing

References