Baseline

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

The word baseline may refer to: Baseline (configuration management), the process of managing change in software or other fields Baseline (sea), the starting point for delimiting a coastal state's maritime zones Baseline, in underwater diving, a value used to convert cylinder pressure of a tank to free gas volume Baseline (surveying), a line between two points of the Earth's surface and the direction and distance between them Baseline (typography), the line upon which most letters "sit" and below which descenders extend Baseline (budgeting), an estimate of budget expected during a fiscal year Baseline (science), information found at the beginning of a study Baseline (pharmacology), a person's state of mind or being, in the absence of drugs The isoelectric line of an electrocardiogram Baseline (interferometry), the length of an astronomical interferometer