baseline

• advent
• alpha
• appearance
• arrival
• basis
• beginning
• birth
• childhood
• commencement
• control
• cradle
• creation
• criterion
• dawn
• dawning
• day one
• debut
• diagnostic
• drawing board
• emergence
• example
• exemplar
• first base
• founding
• fountain
• fountainhead
• genesis
• germ
• get-go
• git-go
• ground zero
• guideline
• inauguration
• inception
• incipience
• incipiency
• infancy
• initiation
• institution
• kickoff
• launch
• measure
• morning
• nascence
• nascency
• onset
• opening
• origin
• origination
• outset
• paradigm
• precedent
• root
• seedbed
• source
• spring
• square one
• standard
• start
• threshold
• touchstone
• well
• wellspring
• youth

• cessation
• close
• closing
• closure
• completion
• conclusion
• end
• ending
• finale
• finish
• omega
• period
• stop
• termination
• windup

• noun
  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. A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.
  4. The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play.
  5. A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.
• verb
  1. To provide a baseline for measurement.
  2. To play from the baseline.

• The team set a baseline for measuring future progress.
• Before starting the project, we need to establish a clear baseline.
• The athlete returned to the baseline after each serve in the tennis match.
• Our data shows improvements compared to the initial baseline.
• The architect drew the baseline to guide the construction work.

nascence

nascency

dawn

day one

kick off

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