baseline
Definition 1
General: Clearly defined starting point (point of departure) from where implementation begins, improvement is judged, or comparison is made.
Definition 2
Contracting: Basic proposal submitted in response to a request for proposals (RFP). See also acquisition program baseline, contract budget baseline, and performance measurement baseline.
Definition 3
Surveying: Surveyed line (running east and west; the longitudes or meridians run north and south) from which the location of a building, geographical feature, or territorial and maritime zones, etc., are measured and referenced. Also called latitude.
baseline is in the Agreements & Contracts, Planning & Scheduling and Real Estate & Buildings subjects.
baseline appears in the definitions of the following terms: territorial sea, earned value management, schedule variance, planned value, trend percentage, latitude and meridian
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