All baseline synonyms

noun baseline

• guideline — any guide or indication of a future course of action: guidelines on the government's future policy.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• criterion — A criterion is a factor on which you judge or decide something.
• measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• standard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
• diagnostic — Diagnostic equipment, methods, or systems are used for discovering what is wrong with people who are ill or with things that do not work properly.
• touchstone — a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing.
• point of departure — Nautical. the precise location of a vessel, established in order to set a course, especially in beginning a voyage in open water.
• zero — the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
• model — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
• reference — pointer
• check — Check is also a noun.
• boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
• boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• periphery — the external boundary of any surface or area.
• white line — a stripe of white paint, tiles, or the like, that marks the center or outer edge of a road.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• threshold — the sill of a doorway.
• basis — If something is done on a particular basis, it is done according to that method, system, or principle.
• precedent — Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
• paradigm — Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.