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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.

derived from *gʷem-✻
derived from *gʷémtis✻
derived from βάσις
derived from basis

Definitions

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.
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.
An underlying condition or circumstance.
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1. 4
  A regular frequency.
  - 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.
2. 5
  The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an…
  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.
3. In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
4. Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
5. 8
  A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the…
  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.

The neighborhood

Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at basis. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at basis. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at basis

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