Dictionary

basis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈbeɪ.sɪs/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbæɪ.sɪs/ (Australia)
• bāʹsĭs

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.

Meanings

1. A physical base or foundation.
   • We see here the ground-plan of masses of houses, with their upper walls of fire-baked brick on a basis of stone. 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 27:
   • 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!
2. A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
   • I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China. 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
3. An underlying condition or circumstance.
   • Allow us to compete on an equal basis.
   • 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. 2013 September 7, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian:
4. A regular frequency.
   • Cars must be checked on a yearly basis.
   • You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
   • The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis.
5. 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.
6. In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
7. Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
8. 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.

Forms

Deriveds

Fourier basis · cash basis · eigenbasis · Schauder basis · Hamel basis · Gröbner basis · accrual basis · on a day-to-day basis · tax basis · basis vector · on a case-by-case basis · on a first-name basis · basis point · basic · cost basis · Bernstein basis polynomial · on an irregular basis · normal basis · on a need-to-know basis · on a daily basis · fare basis · basis spline · on a regular basis · subbasis · on the basis of · polynomial basis · Hilbert's basis theorem · basiswise · rational basis review

Synonyms

base (starting point for discussion)

Translations (123)

txb ścmoñña (underlying condition) · de Basis (underlying condition) · ar أَسَاس (underlying condition) · it cifra base (accounting: amount paid for an investment) · fi perustus (physical base or foundation) · pt fundamento (starting point for an argument) · it base (underlying condition) · ru осно́ва (underlying condition) · fa اساس (starting point for an argument) · tr asıl (starting point for an argument) · tr taban (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · sa धरुण (physical base or foundation) · uk осно́ва (underlying condition) · hi आधार (starting point for an argument) · ja 基礎 (underlying condition) · tr dayanak (starting point for an argument) · pl co (regular frequency) · de Basis (starting point for an argument) · pt base (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · fi pohja (physical base or foundation) · nl basis (underlying condition) · es manera (regular frequency) · fi joka (regular frequency) · kea bazi (underlying condition) · hu alap (underlying condition) · ky негиз (physical base or foundation) · grc βάσις (starting point for an argument) · hi आधार (underlying condition) · tl batayan (underlying condition) · ru фунда́мент (physical base or foundation) · cmn 基 (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · sv basis (starting point for an argument) · fi basis (agriculture: difference between cash price and futures price) · ru ба́зис (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · it ammontare base (accounting: amount paid for an investment) · pl baza (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · ru ба́зис (underlying condition) · et baas (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · ota تمل (starting point for an argument) · ko 밑바탕 (underlying condition) · es basis (physical base or foundation) · es base (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · el βάση (starting point for an argument) · ro bază (starting point for an argument) · ru основа́ние (physical base or foundation) · tr temel (starting point for an argument) · kea baze (underlying condition) · ja 根拠 (starting point for an argument) · vi cơ sở (underlying condition) · fi peruste (underlying condition) · nl basis (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · kea baze (starting point for an argument) · ca base (underlying condition) · uk баз́ис (underlying condition) · hy բազիս (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · eu oinarri (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · pt fundamento (underlying condition) · ru ба́за (underlying condition) · fi kanta (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · hi आधार (physical base or foundation) · cmn 基礎 /基础 (underlying condition) · ko 바탕 (starting point for an argument) · fr base (underlying condition) · be асно́ва (starting point for an argument) · bg осно́ва (underlying condition) · kea baze (physical base or foundation) · es fuste (starting point for an argument) · ko 기초 (underlying condition) · es basis (starting point for an argument) · bg и́зходен пункт (starting point for an argument) · sv grund (starting point for an argument) · ja 基底 (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · tr temel (physical base or foundation) · de Grundlage (starting point for an argument) · es basa (physical base or foundation) · hu bázis (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · fr base (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · fi -ttain (regular frequency) · ru осно́ва (starting point for an argument) · de Basis (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · hi नींव (physical base or foundation) · fi peruste (starting point for an argument) · uk ба́за (underlying condition) · kea bazi (starting point for an argument) · pt base (starting point for an argument) · fi kanta (topology: collection of subsets) · it base (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · bg ба́за (underlying condition) · ar قَاعِدَة (underlying condition) · ota تمل (underlying condition) · de Grundlage (underlying condition) · uk баз́ис (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · ro bază (underlying condition) · fi hankintameno (accounting: amount paid for an investment) · fi perusta (physical base or foundation) · kea bazi (physical base or foundation) · hu alap (starting point for an argument) · de Fundament (physical base or foundation) · pl podstawa (starting point for an argument) · tl batayan (starting point for an argument) · sv bas (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · tr temel (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · uk осно́ва (starting point for an argument) · tr temel (underlying condition) · it cifra (accounting: amount paid for an investment) · nl basis (starting point for an argument) · ru основа́ние (starting point for an argument) · he בסיס (physical base or foundation) · fi lähtökohta (starting point for an argument) · it ammontare (accounting: amount paid for an investment) · da basis (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · es basa (starting point for an argument) · az əsas (underlying condition) · ru фунда́мент (starting point for an argument) · ro bază (linearly independent, spanning set of vectors) · az əsas (starting point for an argument) · ko 밑천 (accounting: amount paid for an investment) · it fondamenta (physical base or foundation) · es basamento (starting point for an argument) · la fundāmen (physical base or foundation) · fr base (starting point for an argument) · es basamento (physical base or foundation) · it base (starting point for an argument)