basis

Basis

A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis

• Water is the basis of life.

  Wasser ist die Grundlage des Lebens.

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• We talk on the phone on a regular basis.

  Wir telefonieren regelmäßig miteinander.

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Basis

A physical base or foundation

Basis

An underlying condition or circumstance

Basis

A regular frequencyselten

Basis

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 exchangeselten

Basis

In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector spaceselten

Basis

Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expensesselten

Basis

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 elementselten