basis

basis
/bay"sis/, n., pl. bases /-seez/.
1. the bottom or base of anything; the part on which something stands or rests.
2. anything upon which something is based; fundamental principle; groundwork.
3. the principal constituent; fundamental ingredient.
4. a basic fact, amount, standard, etc., used in making computations, reaching conclusions, or the like: The nurse is paid on an hourly basis. He was chosen on the basis of his college grades.
5. Math. a set of linearly independent elements of a given vector space having the property that every element of the space can be written as a linear combination of the elements of the set.
[1525-35; < L < Gk básis step, place one stands on, pedestal, equiv. to ba-, base of baínein to walk, step (akin to COME) + -sis -SIS; cf. BASE1]
Syn. 1, 2. See base1.

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      a step in a march or dance; the lifting and lowering of the foot, or arsis (arsis and thesis) plus thesis. The term may also refer to the two syllables or the first foot in some ancient verse that serve to introduce the line or stanza and often admit more variation from the norm of the line than appears in subsequent feet.

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