baselining

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To provide a baseline for measurement.
   • Finally, the test was baselined by evaluating the best and poorest catalysts of their respective types by this protocol.1993, M.M. Mitchell et al., “Residual Feed Cracking Catalysts”, in Magee & Mitchell, editors, Fluid Catalytic Cracking, →ISBN, page 320
2. (intransitive) To play from the baseline.
   • 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 …2002, Susan Orlean, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, →ISBN, page 260

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