Baseline vs False - What's the difference?
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A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.
A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.
(typography) A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.
(tennis) The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play.
(engineering) A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.
(engineering, computing) To provide a baseline for measurement.
* {{quote-book, 1993, M.M. Mitchell et al., chapter=Residual Feed Cracking Catalysts, Fluid Catalytic Cracking, editors=Magee & Mitchell
, passage=Finally, the test was baselined by evaluating the best and poorest catalysts of their respective types by this protocol.}}
(tennis) To play from the baseline.
* {{quote-book, 2002, , The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
, passage=By the time Maggie, who is eight years younger than Manuela, started playing, baselining was no longer enough to win points, so she learned to move around the court more …}}
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun baseline
is a line that is a base for measurement or for construction.As a verb baseline
is (engineering|computing) to provide a baseline for measurement.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.baseline
English
(wikipedia baseline)Noun
(en noun)- A laser level generates a convenient baseline for interior work.
- We used used the last doctor visit to provide baselines for vital statistics.
- Several characters typically have descenders below the lower baseline .
- The ref missed the call. The ball hit the baseline .
- The baseline configuration includes unsupported components.
Derived terms
* baseline driver * baseline game * baselined * baselinerVerb
(baselin)citation
citation
Anagrams
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}