Basis

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  • noun. A foundation upon which something rests.
  • noun. The chief constituent; the fundamental ingredient.
  • noun. The fundamental principle.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An underlying circumstance or condition: synonym: base.
  • noun. A pattern or schedule for proceeding.
  • noun. A condition for relating or proceeding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as basipodite.
  • noun. The foundation of anything; that on which a thing stands or on which anything is reared; a foundation, groundwork, or supporting principle: now most commonly used of immaterial things.
  • noun. In architecture, same as base, 3.
  • noun. A pedestal.
  • noun. The principal constituent of a compound; a fundamental ingredient.
  • noun. Milit., same as base, 15
  • noun. . In crystallography and petrography, same as basal plane (which see, under basal).
  • noun. In botany and conchology, same as base, 4.
  • noun. [NL.] In anatomy, the base; the fundamental or basilar part of anything: as, basis cranii, the base of the skull.
  • noun. In prosody, a trochee or its substitute preceding the dactyls of a logaœdic series.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
  • noun. The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.
  • noun. The groundwork; the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.
  • noun. The principal component part of a thing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
  • noun. An underlying condition or circumstance.
  • noun. regular frequency
  • noun. In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
  • noun. Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
  • noun. A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the most important or necessary part of something
  • noun. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
  • noun. a relation that provides the foundation for something
  • Word Usage
    "• Trading margin of 13. 5%; up 155 bps on a constant currency basis and 160 bps on an actual currency basis*"
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