basis
Etymology
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Etymology
From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis, derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (whence also come).
Pronunciation Nounbasis
- A physical base or foundation.
- 1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271 ↗,
- Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
Mountain on mountain thrown,
With threatening hurl, that shook th' aerial firmament!
- Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
- 1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271 ↗,
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- 2019, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190311070055/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/south-korea-proposes-rain-project-with-china-to-cut-pollution/4819207.html VOA Learning English] (public domain)
- I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China.
- 2019, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190311070055/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/south-korea-proposes-rain-project-with-china-to-cut-pollution/4819207.html VOA Learning English] (public domain)
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- A regular frequency.
- You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
- The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis.
- Cars must be checked on a yearly basis.
- (agriculture, trading) The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
- Included in the basis could be elevation, cleaning, freight by truck and/or rail, government inspection fees, administration fees, interest and storage charges as well as allowance for risk and profit for the grain dealer.https://www.alberta.ca/wheat-basis-levels.aspx
- (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
- (topology) 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.
- The collection of all possible unions of basis elements of a basis is said to be the topology generated by that basis.
- (starting point for discussion) base
- German: Fundament
- Italian: fondamenta
- Russian: основа́ние
- French: base
- German: Basis, Grundlage
- Italian: base
- Portuguese: base, fundamento
- Russian: осно́ва
- Spanish: base, fundamento
- French: base
- German: Basis, Grundlage
- Italian: base
- Portuguese: fundamento
- Russian: ба́за
- Spanish: base, fundamento
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