Base
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A base is:
- In Computing:
- In Mathematics:
- In Politics:
- base is a Political party's core group of voters.
- 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).
- In warfare, a Military base is a Logistics point such as a supply dump and a concentrated facility for storing and repairing military equipment such as an Air force base.
- In Sport
- 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.
- BASE jumping is an extreme variation on skydiving.
- 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.
- The name of the terrorist group Al-Qaida translates as "the base."
- 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, a base is the part of a Column between the bottom of the shaft and the top of the pedestal.
- An easily-confused homonym for Bass (disambiguation), referring to various usages of bass and to basso, the vocal range.