bases

Meaning of bases

noun
  1. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
  2. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
  3. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
  4. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
  5. A basic but essential component or ingredient.
  6. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
  7. Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
  8. Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
  9. Important areas in games and sports.
  10. The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
  11. A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
  12. The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
  13. The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
  14. The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
  15. The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
  16. The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
  17. A number raised to the power of an exponent.
    The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.
  18. The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
  19. A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
  20. A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
  21. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
  22. A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
  23. The smallest kind of cannon.
  24. The housing of a horse.
  25. (in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
  26. The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
  27. An apron.
  28. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
  29. A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
  30. The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
  31. A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
  32. Short for base leg.
verb
  1. To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
  2. To be located (at a particular place).
  3. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
noun
  1. A low spectrum of sound tones.
    Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass.
  2. A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
    The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.
  3. One who sings in the bass range.
    Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.
  4. An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
    The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.
  5. The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
    The score had been written without the treble and bass, but it was easy to pick out which was which based on the location of the notes on the staff.
noun
  1. A root.
  2. A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.
  3. The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.
noun
  1. A physical base or foundation.
  2. A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
  3. An underlying condition or circumstance.
  4. A regular frequency.
    Cars must be checked on a yearly basis.
  5. In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
  6. Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
  7. 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.

Information about bases

Hyphenation of bases

bases

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • bases is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

bases synonyms

Meaning :

alkali, basso, primitive, radical, base

bases antonyms

Meaning :

acid, apex

Anagrams of bases

basse, sabes

Words that rhyme with bases

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