Base Line Definition

noun
A line serving as a base.
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Any starting or reference point, figure, amount, level, etc. with which others can be measured or compared.
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A horizontal line measured with special accuracy to provide a base for survey by triangulation.
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The unmarked lane, six feet (1.8 m) wide, between any two consecutive bases: a base runner who does not stay within this lane may, in certain situations, be called out by an umpire.
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End line; esp., an area of the court just inside this line.

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Base Line Sentence Examples

  • The year 1784 marks the beginning of the ordnance survey, for in that year Major-General Roy measured a base line of 27,404 ft.

  • In 1784 the base-line of the first trigonometrical survey in England was laid down on the heath.

  • The light reflected from the fixed mirror traces a straight line on the paper, serving as a base line from which the variations in declination are measured.

  • As the declination changes the spot of light reflected from the magnet mirror moves parallel to the axis of the recording drum, and hence the distance between the line traced by this spot and the base line gives, for any instant, on an arbitrary scale the difference between the declination and a constant angle, namely, the declination corresponding to the base line.

  • The magnet is so weighted that its axis is approximately horizontal, and any change in the inclination of the axis is observed by means of an attached mirror, a second mirror fixed to the stand serving to give a base line for the records, which are obtained in the same way as in the case of the declination.

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