Synonyms of baselines

baselines

noun

plural of baseline

as in beginnings

the point at which something begins

any year or event we use as the baseline for the Renaissance is going to be at least somewhat arbitrary

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beginnings
• inceptions
• alphas
• starts
• onsets
• commencements
• thresholds
• launches
• geneses
• kickoffs
• outsets
• day ones
• births
• dawns
• infancies
• nascencies
• incipiencies
• originations
• incipiences
• mornings
• origins
• nascences
• inaugurations
• first bases
• ground zeros
• get-goes
• initiations
• drawing boards
• institutions
• square ones
• wells
• sources
• fountains
• arrivals
• springs
• emergences
• germs
• childhoods
• creations
• cradles
• wellsprings
• roots
• openings
• seedbeds
• debuts
• fountainheads
• advents
• youths
• appearances

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• conclusions
• ends
• periods
• endings
• closes
• terminations
• stops
• completions
• finishes
• closures
• closings
• omegas
• cessations
• windups
• finales

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of baselines

The Jordan and James camps will continue to pound away at each other from their baselines, back and forth, making the rest of us who are undecided feel like chair umpires at a tennis match, head on a swivel. — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 30 July 2026

Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index reports that several frontier models now meet or exceed human baselines on tests covering doctorate level science, multimodal reasoning and competition mathematics. — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

It should also be compared against simpler baselines like conventional simulators. — ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

That instant readout traces back to 1991, when IBM first brought serve-speed radar to the Championships, planting radar guns behind the baselines. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 9 July 2026

Among the highlights are a 51 percent reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions intensity and a 13 percent reduction in energy intensity compared to FY2011 baselines. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 8 July 2026

Pictures of the Charlotte Hornets’ all-time franchise leader in points hang from the ceiling along one of the baselines of the host of basketball and volleyball courts. — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2026

The system aggregates sensor readings, analyzes trends, compares current measurements with historical baselines, and flags anomalies that may indicate emerging failures. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026

Optical interferometers were invented more than a century ago, but orchestrating and combining signals from multiple telescopes across long baselines has proved much harder to accomplish with visible light compared to the relative ease of working in radio waves. — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 27 May 2026