basis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bāʹsĭs
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˈbæɪ.sɪs/
rhymes: -eɪsɪs
Forms: form: bases
form: baseis
form: basises
Etymology: From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis, derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (whence also come). Doublet of base.
Senses: examples: text: 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!
text: We see here the ground-plan of masses of houses, with their upper walls of fire-baked brick on a basis of stone.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 27:
glosses: A physical base or foundation.
examples: text: I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
examples: text: Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
ref: 2013 September 7, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An underlying condition or circumstance.
examples: text: You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
text: The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis.
text: Cars must be checked on a yearly basis.
glosses: A regular frequency.
examples: text: 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.
topics: agriculture
business
finance
lifestyle
trading
glosses: 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.
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
examples: text: The collection of all possible unions of basis elements of a basis is said to be the topology generated by that basis.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: 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.
Synonyms: sense: starting point for discussion
word: base
Derived terms: accrual basis
basic
basis point
basis spline
basis vector
basiswise
Bernstein basis polynomial
cash basis
cost basis
eigenbasis
fare basis
Fourier basis
Gröbner basis
Hamel basis
Hilbert's basis theorem
normal basis
on a case-by-case basis
on a daily basis
on a day-to-day basis
on a first-name basis
on a need-to-know basis
on an irregular basis
on a regular basis
on the basis of
polynomial basis
rational basis review
Schauder basis
subbasis
tax basis