basises

Noun

basis (plural bases or (rare) baseis or (nonstandard) basises)

1. A physical base or foundation.
   • Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
     Mountain on mountain thrown,
     With threatening hurl, that shook th' aerial firmament!1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271
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.2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

   Synonyms:

   base

3. An underlying condition or circumstance.
   • Allow us to compete on an equal basis.
4. A regular frequency.
   • You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
5. 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.
6. In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.

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