Basis

Meaning

Noun

●

A physical

or foundation.

●

A

,

or

for an

or hypothesis.

●

An

or circumstance.

●

A

frequency.

●

In Agriculture & Trading:

The

between the

price a

to a

for his

and an

price, which is usually the

price at which the given

is

at a

exchange.

●

In Linear algebra:

In a

, a

independent set

of

the whole

.

●

In Accounting:

Amount

for an

, including

and other expenses.

●

In Topology:

A

of

("basis

s") of a set,

this

the set, and for any two

s which both

an

of the set, there is a

in the

of the first two, which also

s that

.

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Origin

basis

English

basis

Latin

βάσις

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

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