basis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
agriculture
business
finance
lifestyle
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
topology
trading
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.
Inflected forms:
form: bases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baseis
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: basises
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A physical base or foundation.
pos: noun
examples: 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!
We see here the ground-plan of masses of houses, with their upper walls of fire-baked brick on a basis of stone.
gloss: A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
pos: noun
examples: I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China.
gloss: An underlying condition or circumstance.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A regular frequency.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
pos: noun
gloss: Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The collection of all possible unions of basis elements of a basis is said to be the topology generated by that basis.
Derived words: 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
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