Other Definitions
base (dict)
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BaseA base is: - in mathematics:
- In politics, a base is a political party's core group of voters.
- In baseball, a base is one of 4 bags or plates placed at corners of the infield diamond that a player has to run to after hitting the ball.
- In a transistor the base is the controlling connection to the junction.
- In Marxism describes the material equipment and material relations of human society, as distinct from the 'superstructural' forms of society - laws, customs, ideas, beliefs, etc.
- BASE jumping is an extreme variation on skydiving.
- The name of the terrorist group Al-Qaida translates as "the base."
- In 2001, the catchphrase "All your base are belong to us" swept across the Internet.
- In chemistry, a base is the reactive complement to an acid. See Acid-base reaction theories.
- In genetics, a base pair consists of two complimentary DNA or RNA nucleotides joined by hydrogen bonds.
- In linguistics, a base is a synonym for root word.
- In telecommunications, Base is a mobile telephony company in Belgium, a subsidiary of the Dutch telecommunications company KPN.
- An isolated settlement in inhospitable conditions that must rely on outside help in order to survive, such as Antarctica base or Moon base.
- In architecture the lower, supporting part of a column. See base (architecture).
- An easily-confused homonym for Bass (musical term) , referring to various usages of bass and to bass, the vocal range.
- As modified by the word tax, it refers to how much income and assets one has, earns, spends, inherits, etcetera as used in the formula to decide owed tax (example: owed_tax = (base times tax_percent) minus deductible).
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