basis
IPA: bˈeɪsʌs
noun
- A physical base or foundation.
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- A regular frequency.
- (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.
- (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.
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Examples of "basis" in Sentences
- Is that the basis of the relevancy
- Coercion is the basis of hierarchy.
- The basis of the ban is ridiculous.
- That was the basis of the reversion.
- It is the basis of the technocracy movement.
- The analogy is not the basis for the belief.
- On the basis of the foregoing, clearly they are.
- That's the basis for the indefinite approximation.
- He is the ground of my being and the basis for any human consanguinity.
- The only ground for knowledge is the intuition, the basis of sense experience.
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